The jaguar and the priest
Subtitle: an ethnography of Tzeltal souls
By: Pedro Pitarch ; foreword by Roy Wagner
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies; Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng; myn
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780292723313
Subjects: Tzeltal Indians; Rites and ceremonies; Religion; Shamanism; Social life and customs
Work titles: Ch'ulel
Description: "This book will be a classic in Maya ethnography...The field of study of Maya souls is surprisingly well tilled, but Pitarch pushes our understanding forward with the depth of his engaging descriptions and the analytic complexity he is able to capture. The data presented here are remarkably rich. Pitarch offers the sort of documentation that will make this a valuable work for years to come, and the sort of enduring ethnography that will not be dated in a few years."--Edward F. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University.

"This book is a brilliant exegesis of the concept of soul and its relationship to identity, history, memory, and personhood in Cancuc, a Tzeltal-speaking township in Chiapas, Mexico.... Pitarch's study is an example of the best of fine-grained ethnographic analysis."--Christine E. Eber, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ethnography of souls; title: Souls and signs; title: The European within; title: Animism as history; title: Narrative, ritual, silence; title: The mirror in the saints; title: A case of healing : text and ritual; title: Conclusion: The fold.