Zinacantan : : A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas / / Evon Z. Vogt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Vogt, Evon Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (733 p.) :; 144 halftones, 60 line illustrations, 8 maps, 18 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Part I / Geographic and Cultural Setting --; 1 / The Highlands of Chiapas --; 2 / Tzotzil Prehistory and History --; Part II / Material Culture and Economics --; 3 / Subsistence Activities --; 4 / Houses --; 5 / Clothing --; 6 / Trading and Other Economic Activities --; Part III / Social Structure --; 7 / Social Groupings --; 8 / Settlement Patterns --; 9 / The Life Cycle --; 10 / Relationship Systems --; 11 / The Cargo System --; 12 / The Political System --; Part IV / Religious Beliefs and Rituals --; 13 / Cosmology and Ancient Gods --; 14 / Myths --; 15 / Catholic Churches and Saints --; 16 / Human Souls and Animal Spirits --; 17 / Sacred Places --; 18 / Ritual Symbols --; 19 / Witchcraft --; 20 / Shamanistic Rituals --; 21 / Cargo Rituals I --; 22 / Cargo Rituals II --; Part V / Some Principles and Processes --; 23 / Replication --; 24 / Encapsulation --; 25 / Implications for Cultural Change --; Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index --; Appendix I / Harvard Chiapas Project Field Workers, 1957–1968 --; Appendix II / Tzotzil Phonemes --; Appendix III / Zinacanteco Names --; Appendix IV / Tzotzil Texts --; Appendix V / Case Descriptions of Shamanistic Rituals --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674436886; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674436886
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Evon Z. Vogt.