Chan Kom: A Maya village. Abridged edition

Preface ......Page 10
Gradients  of  civilization  in  Yucatan ......Page 12
The  intermediate  villages ......Page 13
The  position  of  Chan  Kom ......Page 15
The  location  of  Chan  Kom:  Communications ......Page 17
The  spatial  limits  of  the  native’s  world ......Page 19
The  temporal  limits  of  the  native’s  world ......Page 22
Population  changes ......Page 24
Vitality ......Page 25
Language ......Page 26
Literacy ......Page 28
The  pre-hispanic  period ......Page 29
The  Spanish  Conquest ......Page 30
After  the  Conquest ......Page 31
The  War  of  the  Castes ......Page 33
Colonization ......Page 35
The  Revolution  of  1910-1921 ......Page 36
Chan  Kom  becomes  a  pueblo ......Page 38
Chapter  III.  Tools  and  Techniques ......Page 42
Houses ......Page 46
Domestic  equipment ......Page 48
Food  and  cookery ......Page 50
Clothing ......Page 56
Agriculture ......Page 57
Cattle  and  poultry ......Page 62
Bees  and  bee-keeping ......Page 63
Quantity  of  maize  production ......Page 68
The  man-land  ratio ......Page 69
Firewood  and  building  materials ......Page 71
Production  and  consumption  groups ......Page 74
Consumption:  A  family  budget ......Page 75
Wealth  and  its  distribution ......Page 76
Trade ......Page 77
Money ......Page 79
Personal  property  and  inheritance ......Page 80
Land ......Page 83
Between  the  sexes ......Page 89
The  secular  professionals ......Page 92
Midwife  and  kax  baac ......Page 93
The  casamentero ......Page 94
The  h-mens ......Page 95
Cooperative  labor  and  work  exchange ......Page 98
Communal  labor: fagina ......Page 99
Occupational  division  of  time ......Page 101
The  yearly  round ......Page 102
Family  and  household ......Page 108
Kinship  and  the  great  family ......Page 112
Kinship  terms ......Page 114
Older  brothers ......Page 115
Marriage:  Choice  of  spouse ......Page 116
Divorce  and  desertion ......Page 118
Godparents  and  compadres ......Page 119
Status ......Page 121
Races  and  classes ......Page 122
Local  government:  The  comisario ......Page 123
State  and  national  government: Liga  and  Agrarian  Committee ......Page 125
The  santo ......Page 128
The  cross ......Page 131
Gods  of  the  field  and  the  forest ......Page 132
Gods  of  the  bees ......Page 137
Guardians  of  the  deer ......Page 138
The  winds ......Page 139
The  alux ......Page 140
Demon and monster ......Page 142
Propitiation and prayer ......Page 143
The  two  ritual  contexts ......Page 145
The  offerings  to  the  yuntzilob ......Page 148
Making  the  milpa ......Page 153
The  Dinner-of-the-Milpa ......Page 155
The  Dinner-of-the-Thup ......Page 158
The  rain  ceremony ......Page 159
First  fruit  ceremonies ......Page 168
The  Dinner-of-the-Bees ......Page 169
The  new  house  ceremony ......Page 171
The  novena ......Page 173
Prayers  fot  the  dead ......Page 177
The  village  fiesta ......Page 178
Dza  akab  and  hadz  pach ......Page 183
Chapter  X.  Sickness  and  its  Cure ......Page 185
"Cold”  and  "hot ......Page 186
The  evil  winds ......Page 189
Ojo ......Page 193
Nocturnal  birds ......Page 194
Divination ......Page 195
Treatment  of  disease ......Page 196
Therapeutic  ceremonies ......Page 198
Amulets ......Page 201
Witchcraft ......Page 202
Birth ......Page 206
Names ......Page 210
Baptism ......Page 211
The  hand-washing  ceremony ......Page 214
Hetzmek ......Page 215
Childhood ......Page 217
Marriage ......Page 219
The  dying  and  the  dead ......Page 225
The  Days  of  the  Dead ......Page 229
Sun,  moon  and  stars ......Page 232
Eclipses ......Page 233
Plants  and  animals ......Page 234
Man's  own  body ......Page 236
Omens  and  dreams ......Page 237
Chapter  XIII.  A  Village  Leader ......Page 239
A  native  autobiography ......Page 241
Index ......Page 258