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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on K’iche’ Ortography and Transliterations
Maps

Introduction: Mesoamerican Cosmologies and Social Theory

Chapter 1. ‘The Law of Us, the Indigenous’
Chapter 2. Seeing with Eyes of Fire: A Ritual Séance among a K’iche’ Family
Chapter 3. A Future That Already Happened: Time Magic in K’iche’ Rituals
Chapter 4. ‘If You See Me in Dreams, I Can Harm You’: On Witchcraft
Chapter 5. The Struggle for the Earth: The Cosmology of Activism and Resistance
Chapter 6. Altars of History: War, Rituals and Social Memory

Conclusion: What Is Cosmology?

Appendix: Some K’iche’ Cosmological Concepts

Glossary
References
Index

Entanglements of the Maya Universe

Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango

Alonso Zamora Corona

226 pages, 21 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-026-4 Hb Published (July 2025)

eISBN 978-1-83695-027-1
web ISBN 978-1-83695-027-1