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| Beginnings: stability and change | |
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| Chona did not go to school, but her sister did | |
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| A combination of destiny and development | |
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| San Pedro did not go to school, but now it does | |
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| Living culture, across generations | |
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| The "box problem" | |
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| Focusing on cultural practices | |
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| Shifting cultural constellations | |
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| Changes in constellations of cultural practices in the United States | |
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| Spreading cultural constellations | |
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| Changes in constellations of related cultural practices in San Pedro | |
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| Participating in communities | |
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| Meeting Chona and San Pedro | |
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| The paths of generations | |
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| Greetings in a new tongue | |
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| Becoming familiar with Chona and her life | |
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| A daughter sits on the floor | |
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| Weaving a family story | |
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| Paper with a mouth, recounting the developing destinies of an iyoom and her community | |
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| Preserving a record of a sacred practice | |
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| Communicating across time and place | |
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| Writing notes | |
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| Born to a spiritual calling, across generations: cultural heritage and resistance | |
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| Vitality of spiritual threads | |
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| Chona's mother's heritage and resistance | |
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| Mayan and Ladino practices and relations | |
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| Combined ancestry in San Pedro | |
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| Risks: Chona's father's warning | |
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| Resisting a risky destiny | |
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| Accepting spiritual persuasion and instruction | |
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| Childhood and where babies come from | |
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| Taboo topics for children and youth | |
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| Where do babies come from? | |
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| Avoiding reference to pregnancy and birth with children | |
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| Avoiding reference to pregnancy and birth with young adults | |
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| Menstruation | |
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| Sexual intercourse | |
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| Chona grows into her role | |
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| A becoming young woman | |
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| An unsuitable suitor | |
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| Courtship | |
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| Plans to marry | |
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| Chona did not choose her husband | |
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| Bearing children and sorrow | |
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| A long history of loss | |
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| The sorrow is still fresh | |
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| Changing memories in changing practices | |
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| Translation issues? | |
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| Confusion of ages? | |
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| Difficulties in remembering the distant past? | |
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| Adjusting the account according to who is listening? | |
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| The meaning of being an iyoom has changed | |
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| Entry and prominence in a sacred profession | |
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| The first births | |
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| Harrowing events and convincing supernatural visits | |
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| An iyoom of renown | |
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| Ripples across generations and nations in Mayan pregnancy and childbirth | |
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| Longevity of the goddess of midwives, childbirth, water, and the moon | |
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| Conception | |
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| Requesting an iyoom's services for pregnancy | |
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| Protecting pregnancy | |
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| The iyoom's work during pregnancy | |
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| Birthing | |
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| Chona's own births, as learning experiences | |
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| A San Pedro birth connecting with pre-Hispanic Aztec practices | |
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| Spiritual aid during the delivery-Catholic and ancient Mayan | |
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| Ripples across generations and nations in birth destinies and postnatal care | |
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| Reading signs of the future | |
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| The responsibility to unveil special destinies | |
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| Care of the newborn, the placenta, and the umbilical cord | |
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| Care of mother and newborn during the lying-in period | |
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| Ajtuuj: One who uses the sweat bath | |
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| Medical and spiritual attention to the newborn | |
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| Purification and protection ceremony to conclude the lying-in period | |
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| Safeguarding the baby's muxu'x and the baby's future | |
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| Concluding the lying-in ceremony | |
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| Continuing care after the lying-in period | |
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| Ways of learning across times and places | |
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| Didactic medical instruction or collaborative discussion | |
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| Learning through destinies shared across generations | |
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| Learning through observing, listening in, and contributing | |
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| Access to the range of activities of the family and community | |
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| Opportunities to learn by observing and listening in | |
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| Learning by pitching in | |
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| Keen attention to ongoing events and initiative in learning | |
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| Narratives and explanations in the course of action | |
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| Learning via dreams | |
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| Learning through simulations in play | |
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| Traditions and transformations | |
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| Destinies and developments in the course of individual lives | |
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| Individuals contributing to transformations of cultural practices | |
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| Developments and destinies of communities | |
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| Interesting Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Quotation credits | |
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| Index | |