The world below
Subtitle: body and cosmos in Otomí Indian ritual
By: Jacques Galinier ; translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.
Series: Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Otomi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Otomi mythology; Otomi Indians -- Psychology; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Mexico; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1985) under title: La moitié du monde.
Table of contents: title: The two strands of memory; title: Spaces and powers; title: Shamanic sessions; title: The big life; title: In the name of Christ and the ancestors; title: The carnival of the gods; title: The half of the world.