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title	:	Tortillas for the Gods : A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals
author	:	Vogt, Evon Zartman.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806125594
print isbn13	:	9780806125596
ebook isbn13	:	9780585194370
language	:	English
subject	Tzotzil Indians--Rites and ceremonies, Tzotzil Indians--Religion, Zinacantn (Mexico)--Religious life and customs.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	F1221.T9V59 1993eb
ddc	:	299/.784
subject	:	Tzotzil Indians--Rites and ceremonies, Tzotzil Indians--Religion, Zinacantn (Mexico)--Religious life and customs.

Page i Tortillas for the Gods

Page ii Evon Z. Vogt

Page iii Tortillas for the Gods A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS Norman and London

Page iv Other Books by Evon Z. Vogt Navaho Veterans: A Study of Changing Values (Cambridge, Mass., 1951) Modern Homesteaders: Life in a Twentieth Century Frontier Community (Cambridge, Mass., 1955) (coeditor, with William A. Lessa) Reader in Comparative Religion:An Anthropological Approach (Evanston, 1958; New York, 1965, 1972, 1979) (with Ray Hyman) Water Witching U.S.A. (Chicago, 1959, 1979) Zinacantan: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas (Cambridge, Mass., 1969) The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life (New York, 1970; Fort Worth, 1990) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vogt, Evon Zartman, 1918 Tortillas for the gods: a symbolic analysis of Zinacanteco rituals / Evon Z. Vogt. p. cm. Originally published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8061-2559-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Tzotzil IndiansRites and ceremonies. 2. Tzotzil Indians Religion and mythology. 3. Zincantn (Mexico)Religious life and customs. I. Title. F1221. T9V59 1993 93-18821 299'.784dc20 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Copyright 1976 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; transferred 1992 to the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. New edition copyright 1993 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v To the Memory of Alfonso Caso

Page vii Contents 1 Introduction 1 Some Problems in Decoding Ritual Symbols 1 Ritual as a Communications System 7 Ritual as a Meaning System 10 On Binary Oppositions 12 2 Zinacanteco Cosmology and Socioreligious Organization 13 The Life Cycle 19 Social Organization 24 Religious Organization 27 3 Recurring Episodes in Zinacanteco Ritual 31 A Matrix of Binary Discriminations 31 Focal Symbolic Action in Ritual Episodes 34 4 House and Field Rituals 51 House Rituals 52 Field Rituals 55

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