Sorcery in Mesoamerica
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Sorcery in Mesoamerica

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Sorcery in Mesoamerica

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Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present. While the topic of sorcery and witchcraft in anthropology is well developed in other areas of the world, it has received little academic attention in Mexico and Central America until now.
 
In each chapter, preeminent scholars of ritual and belief ask very different questions about what exactly sorcery is in Mesoamerica. Contributors consider linguistic and visual aspects of sorcery and witchcraft, such as the terminology in Aztec semantics and dictionaries of the Kaqchiquel and K'iche' Maya. Others explore the practice of sorcery and witchcraft, including the incorporation by indigenous sorcerers in the Mexican highlands of European perspectives and practices into their belief system. Contributors also examine specific deities, entities, and phenomena, such as the pantheistic Nahua spirit entities called forth to assist healers and rain makers, the categorization of Classic Maya Wahy ("co-essence") beings, the cult of the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl, and the recurring relationship between female genitalia and the magical conjuring of a centipede throughout Mesoamerica.
 
Placing the Mesoamerican people in a human context—as engaged in a rational and logical system of behavior—Sorcery inMesoamerica is the first comprehensive study of the subject and an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Mesoamerican culture and religion.
 
 
Contributors:
Liliån Gonzålez Chévez, John F. Chuchiak IV, Jeremy D. Coltman, Roberto Martínez Gonzålez, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Cecelia F. Klein, Timothy J. Knab, John Monaghan, Jesper Nielsen, John M. D. Pohl, Alan R. Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein Sandstrom, David Stuart

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Mesoamerican World: An Introduction
  8. 2. Spanish Taxonomies of Witchcraft and the Colonial Highland Maya
  9. 3. Sorcery and Counter-Sorcery among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico
  10. 4. Witchcraft in a Mixtec and Tlapanec Municipality of the Costa Chica of Guerrero: A Sociocultural Epidemiology
  11. 5. Ah Mak Ikob yetel Ah Pul Yahob: Yucatec Maya Witchcraft and Sorcery and the Mestizaje of Magic and Medicine in Colonial Yucatán, 1570–1790
  12. 6. The Jaguar’s Line: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica
  13. 7. The Wahys of Witchcraft: Sorcery and Political Power among the Classic Maya
  14. 8. Where Children Are Born: Centipedes and Feminine Sexuality in Ancient Mesoamerica
  15. 9. “The Devil Incarnate”: A Comparative Perspective on “Deer-Serpents” in Mesoamerican Beliefs and Ritual Practices
  16. 10. Fonds Mexicains No. 20: The Sorcerer’s Cosmos
  17. 11. Nahua Sorcery and the Classic Maya Antecedents of the Macuiltonaleque
  18. 12. From Clay to Stone: The Demonization of the Aztec Goddess Cihuacoatl
  19. 13. Nahualli ihuan tlamacazqui: Witches, Sorcerers, and Priests in Ancient Mexico
  20. Contributors
  21. Index