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The Jaguar and the Priest - An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls (Paperback)
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The Jaguar and the Priest - An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls (Paperback)
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In contrast to western notions of the soul as the essence or most
native part of a human being, the Tzeltal-speaking Indians of
Chiapas, Mexico, regard the soul first and foremost as an Other.
Made up of beings that personify the antithesis of their native
selves-animals such as hummingbirds or jaguars, atmospheric
phenomena like lightning bolts or rainbows, or spirits of European
appearance such as Catholic priests or evangelical
musicians-Tzeltal souls represent the maximum expression of that
which is alien. And because their souls enfold that which is
outside and Other, the Tzeltal contain within themselves the
history of their relationship with Europeans from the beginning of
the Spanish conquest to the present time. Thus, to understand the
Indian self opens a window into the Tzeltal conception of culture
and community, their notions of identity and alterity, and their
interpretation of interethnic relations and types of historical
memory. In this pathfinding ethnography, which was originally
published in Spanish in 1996 as Ch'ulel: una etnografia de las
almas tzeltales and is now extensively rewritten and amplified in
English, Pedro Pitarch offers a new understanding of indigenous
concepts of the soul, personhood, and historical memory in highland
Chiapas. Exploring numerous aspects of indigenous culture and
history-medicine and shamanism, geography and cosmology, and
politics and kinship among them-he engages in a radical rethinking
of classic issues in Mesoamerican anthropology, such as ethnicity
and alterity, community and tradition, and change and permanence.
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