Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: An Indigenous Point of View
2 Anthropological Theories and Indigenous People
3 Decolonizing Maya History and Cultures
4 Mayalogue: The Treaty of Maya Ideas: Q’inal: Time, Life, and Existence
	Bases of Mayalogue
	Mayalogue and the Cosmic Unity of Life: The Popol Vuh
5 Mayalogue: From Oral Histories and Traditions to Written Ethnographies
	Oral Tradition: A Personal Experience
	Oral Tradition and Indigenous Methodologies
6 Native Methods for Documenting History: Oxlan B’en: The Cyclical View of Time and History
	The Telescoping of Time
	The Halo of Mystery and the Mythification Process
7 Mayalogue: Ohtajb’al: Maya Knowledge and Epistemology
	Maya Ways of Knowing, Epistemology
	The Jakaltek Maya Names of the Days: Their Nature and Omen
8 Mayalogue, the Interactionist Model: Humans, Nature, and the Supernatural World
	The Mayalogue Model
	Mayalogue: Nature as Part of the System
		The Natural World
	Mayalogue: Humans as Part of the System
	Mayalogue: The Spiritual World as Part of the System
9 The Tonal or Spirit Bearer: Human Nature/Animal Nature or the Theory of the Self
	The Yijomal Spixan or Spirit Bearer (A Theory of the Self)
	Spirit Loss, Illness, and Death
	Nawalism: Shape-Shifting and Transformation of a Witch
10 The “Cargo System” and World Maintenance
	The Maya Community
	The Cargo System
11 Mayalogue as a Cosmocentric Paradigm
12 World Building, World Maintenance, and World Dismantling
	World Building
	World Maintenance
	World Dismantling (K’ayilal)
13 Prophetic Cycles and World Renewal
	World Renewal (Ch’ak’b’i Satyib’an Q’inal)
	Prophetic Cycles, 2013, and Beyond
Bibliography
Index