Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Mesoamerican World: An Introduction | John M.D. Pohl and Jeremy D. Coltman
2. Spanish Taxonomies of Witchcraft and the Colonial Highland Maya | John Monaghan
3. Sorcery and Counter-Sorcery among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico | Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
4. Witchcraft in a Mixtec and Tlapanec Municipality of the Costa Chica of Guerrero: A Sociocultural Epidemiology | Lilián González Chévez
5. Ah Mak Ikob yetel Ah Pul Yahob: Yucatec Maya Witchcraft and Sorcery and the Mestizaje of Magic and Medicine in Colonial Yucatán, 1570–1790 | John F. Chuchiak IV
6. The Jaguar’s Line: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica | Timothy J. Knab
7. The Wahys of Witchcraft: Sorcery and Political Power among the Classic Maya | David Stuart
8. Where Children Are Born: Centipedes and Feminine Sexuality in Ancient Mesoamerica | Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
9. “The Devil Incarnate”: A Comparative Perspective on “Deer-Serpents” in Mesoamerican Beliefs and Ritual Practices | Jesper Nielsen
10. Fonds Mexicains No. 20: The Sorcerer’s Cosmos | John M.D. Pohl
11. Nahua Sorcery and the Classic Maya Antecedents of the Macuiltonaleque | Jeremy D. Coltman
12. From Clay to Stone: The Demonization of the Aztec Goddess Cihuacoatl | Cecelia F. Klein
13. Nahualli ihuan tlamacazqui: Witches, Sorcerers, and Priests in Ancient Mexico | Roberto Martínez González
Contributors
Index