The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing

The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing
ISBN-10
0292767129
ISBN-13
9780292767126
Category
Social Science
Pages
419
Language
English
Published
2010-07-05
Publisher
Univ of TX + ORM
Author
Frank J. Lipp

Description

“This elegantly written and thoroughly researched ethnography” is the definitive study of the Mixe people of mountain Oaxaca (Ethnohistory). The Mixe of Oaxaca is the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. First published in 1991, The Mixe of Oaxaca was hailed as a model of ethnographic research. For this edition, Frank Lipp has written a new preface in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.

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