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| Introduction | |
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| Some Problems in Decoding Ritual Symbols | |
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| Ritual as a Communications System | |
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| Ritual as a Meaning System | |
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| On Binary Oppositions | |
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| Zinacanteco Cosmology and Socioreligious Organization | |
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| The Life Cycle | |
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| Social Organization | |
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| Religious Organization | |
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| Recurring Episodes in Zinacanteco Ritual | |
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| A Matrix of Binary Discriminations | |
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| Focal Symbolic Action in Ritual Episodes | |
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| House and Field Rituals | |
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| House and Field Ceremonies as Rituals of Repayment | |
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| House and Field as Models of the Universe | |
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| House and Field Rituals as Symbols of Social Order | |
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| Rituals of Affliction: Description | |
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| The Great Seeing Ceremony | |
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| Rituals of Affliction: Interpretations | |
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| The Corral-Bed | |
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| Ritual Plants as Metaphors | |
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| The Sacrificial Chickens | |
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| Maize Divination and Calling the Lost Soul | |
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| Waterhole and Lineage Rituals | |
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| Variations in the K'IN KRUS Rituals | |
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| Interpretations of K'IN KRUS Rituals | |
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| Some Recurring Cargo Rituals | |
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| The Flower Renewal Ritual | |
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| The Ritual Counting of the Saints' Necklaces | |
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| Change-of-Office Rituals | |
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| Structural and Temporal Symbols in the Cargo Rituals | |
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| End-of-the-Year/New-Year Cargo Ceremonies I | |
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| MIXATIK (Masses) | |
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| The Posada (Inn) Ceremony | |
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| Building the Creche | |
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| The Drama of Ritual Aggression | |
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| The Birth of the Christ Children | |
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| Christmas Day and the Spinning Lesson | |
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| New Year's Day | |
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| Epiphany | |
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| End-of-the-Year/New-Year Cargo Ceremonies II | |
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| Ritual Impersonators | |
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| Props | |
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| Schedule of Events | |
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| Unique Features of the Fiesta | |
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| Transfer of Sacred Objects of Office | |
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| Comments on the Fiesta of San Sebastian | |
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| Interpretations of End-of-Year/New-Year Ceremonies | |
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| Year Renewal Rituals | |
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| The Ritual in the Center | |
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| Variations and Interpretations | |
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| Some Dynamics of Change in Zinacanteco Ritual | |
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| Trends, 1942-1972 | |
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| Nativistic Reactions in Contemporary Zinacantan | |
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| Symbols in Zinacanteco Culture | |
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| Appendix I: Tzotzil Phonemes | |
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| Appendix II: Harvard Chiapas Project Field Workers, 1969-1975 | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |