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Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals [Paperback]

Evon Z. Vogt (Author)

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Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (October 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806125594
ISBN-13: 978-0806125596
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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Wherever you travel in the Mundo Maya; this study of the Zinacanten of Chiapas, offers the clearest, most "understanding" anthropological study by "friends" of the Maya that anglos are likely to have translated to them. What is truely impressive is that what Evon Vogt presented here is so understated, so much like what a dinner party is like in Chiapas, or Q-Roo, or the Peten, that we can feel what the writers of the Popul Vuh felt in their hearts! Itzam'na.

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WHEN ZINACANTECOS LIGHT white wax candles at their mountain shrines, they say they are offering "tortillas" to their ancestral gods who live inside the mountains. Read the first page

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San Lorenzo, Earth Lord, Grand Alcalde, Zinacantan Center, Senior Mayordomo, Year Renewal, Great Seeing, Mayordomo Reyes, Senior Impersonators, Santo Domingo, Senior Outgoing Mayordomo, Second Alcalde, Virgen de Rosario, Episode Five, Jesus Christ, Episode Eight, Episode One, Episode Seven, Episode Six, Episode Two, Episode Four, Episode Nine, Episode Three, Jaguar Rock, Spanish Gentlemen

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Fundamentals of Language (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor) by Roman Jakobson in Back Matter
Maya History and Religion (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by J. Thompson in Back Matter

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