Sorcery in Mesoamerica / edited by Jeremy D. Coltman and John M.D. Pohl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coltman, Jeremy D., editor.

Pohl, John, M. D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Mexico.

Witchcraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 409 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021]

Summary:

""Examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind sorcery, analyzing manifestations from the early Olmec 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 region until now"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sorcery and witchcraft in the Mesoamerican world : an introduction / John M.D. Pohl and Jeremy D. Coltman

Spanish taxonomies of witchcraft and the colonial highland Maya / John Monaghan

Sorcery and counter-sorcery among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom

Witchcraft in a Mixtec and Tlapanec municipality of the Costa Chica of Guerrero : a sociocultural epidemiology / Lilián González Chévez

Ah Mak Ikob yetel Ah Pul Yahob : Yucatec Maya witchcraft and sorcery and the Mestizaje of magic and medicine in colonial Yucatán, 1570-1790 / John F. Chuchiak IV

The jaguar's line : witchcraft and sorcery in Mesoamerica / Timothy J. Knab

The ways of witchcraft : sorcery and political power among the Classic Maya / David Stuart

Where children are born : centipedes and feminine sexuality in Ancient Mesoamerica / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

"The Devil Incarnate" : a comparative perspective on 'Deer-Serpents' in Mesoamerican beliefs and ritual practices / Jesper Nielsen

The sorcerer's cosmos : reconstructing Codex Aubin 20 / John M.D. Pohl

Nahua sorcery and the classic Maya antecedents of the Macuiltonaleque / Jeremy D. Coltman

From clay to stone : the demonization of the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl / Cecelia F. Klein

Nahualli ihuan tlamacazqui : witches, sorcerers and priests in Ancient Mexico / Roberto Marti̹nez González.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607329442

1607329441

OCLC:

1228645499