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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