Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.