The jaguar and the priest: an ethnography of Tzeltal souls

Abstract

* Foreword by Roy Wagner * Preface *1. Introduction * What Are the Souls? * The Self as European * Conversations about Souls * The Town of Cancuc *2. The Ethnography of Souls * The Bird of Our Heart * The ch'ulel * The ch'ulel in ch'iibal Mountain * The ch'ulel inside the Heart * Dreams * Death and the ch'ulel * The lab * Lab That Are Animals * Water lab * Meteor lab * The Illness-Giver lab * The lab as Personal Power * Complete Human Beings * The Internal lab * The Transference of lab * Further Interpretations *3. Souls and Signs * Signs in Gestures * Signs in Dreams *Comparing, Harmonizing like Voices * The Person * Words * Fostering Knowledge *4. The European Within * The Magic Mountain * A Perpetual Fiesta * Castilian Features in the lab * The Ethnic Contrast between Heart and Head * Loss of the Senses and Exposing the Heart *5. Animism as History * Birds of the Heart, Livestock, Metal Tools * Priests * Scribes and Writing * Cattle Ranchers * Christian Music * The lab Mothers-Fathers and Coffee Cultivation * Soul History and the Body *6. Narrative, Ritual, Silence * The Past in Narrative * Exceptions to Neutrality * Ritual * Christian Rituals, Indian Simulation * Difficulties of Dialogue with the Castilians * Crosses * New Religious Identifications *7. The Mirror in the Saints * The Body of the Saints * Saints in Narrative * Images of Origins in the Mirror *8. A Case of Healing: Text and Ritual * The Ceremony * The Text * Commentary *9. Conclusion: The Fold * Person, History, and Memory * The Counterpoint between the Indigenous and the European * The Redoubling of the Other * Appendix: An Outline of Tzeltal Souls * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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