Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. An Outline of Weathermaking, Nahualism, and Sorcery in Rural Tlaxcala
  • 2. The Belief System and Structural Context of Bloodsucking Witchcraft in Rural Tlaxcala
  • 3. The Syncretic and Historical Development of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Mesoamerica
  • 4. The Comparative Distribution and Definition of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica
  • 5. Anatomy of a Bloodsucking Witchcraft Epidemic
  • 6. The Empirical Evidence of Bloodsucking Witchcraft Methodology and Systematic Presentation
  • 7. Natural and Supernatural Explanations: The Logic of Witchcraft and Normative Expectations
  • 8. The Diagnostic and Etiological Analysis of Bloodsucking Witchcraft
  • 9. Social and Psychological Manipulations and the Ex Post Facto Rationalization of the Tlahuelpuchi Complex
  • 10. Aftereffects and the Psychological Context of the Postsucking Period
  • 11. The Social and Psychological Functions of Bloodsucking Witchcraft
  • 12. An Epistemological Approach to the Study of Magic and Religious Supernaturalism.