The world below : body and cosmos in Otomí Indian ritual /

The world below : body and cosmos in Otomí Indian ritual /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Galinier, Jacques.
Uniform title:	Moitié du monde. English
Imprint:	Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2004.
Description:	xvii, 271 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Mesoamerican worlds
Subject:	Otomi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. Otomi mythology. Otomi Indians -- Psychology. Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Mexico. Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Mexico. Human body -- Social aspects. Human body -- Symbolic aspects. Otomi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. Otomi mythology. Mexico.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5518809

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ISBN:	0870817728 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0870817736 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1985) under title: La moitié du monde. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / David Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
1. The two strands of memory
2. Spaces and powers
3. Shamanic sessions
4. The big life
5. In the name of Christ and the ancestors
6. The carnival of the gods
7. The world below.