Santiago Momostenango -- In the Time of the Great Earthquake: The Fieldwork and Its Setting -- A Collection of Texts -- Organization of the Work -- The Institutional Context -- Religious Sodalities of Momostenango: The Communal Cult Institutions -- Saints and Sodalities -- The Sodalities and Ritual Complexes -- The Cofradias -- The Dance Teams -- Serving Jesucristo and the Saints -- Traveling Saints -- Nino San Antonio -- Patron Santiago -- Replication in Momostecan Cult Institutions -- Maya Themes in the Cult of the Saints -- The Ritual Symbols and Their Meanings -- Cosmogonic Tree Raisings and Sunrises -- World Trees and Momostecan Cosmogony -- The Conquest and the Spanish Sunrise -- Secrets and Ordeals of Holy Week -- Costumbrista Holy Week -- San Simon -- Corpus and Santa Cruz -- Serpentine Flowers from the Coast -- The Tzulab -- The Flowering Cross and Quichean Tradition -- Continuity in the Quichean Expressive Culture Tradition -- Continuity -- Sodalities, Saints, and Cabawils -- A Complicated Quichean Tradition of Idolatry -- World Trees at Momostenango and Palenque -- Continuity in the Central Rite of Renewal: The Holy Week Complex and Quichean Tradition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index
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