This case study explores the Zinacenteco belief system as represented in ceremonies, rituals and daily life, and discusses how that belief system also serves as a philosophy, cosmology, theology, code of values and science.

The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Mayan Way of Life

VOGT, Evon Z.

Religion & Spirituality

Wadsworth/Thomson Learning

Offering students an overview of the anthropological findings in religion that have amassed in the last 100 years, this sourcebook presents articles written by anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and others whose works have significantly influenced anthropological thinking.

Lessa: Comparative Religion_p4 (4th Edition)

Lessa, William A.

Harper&Row

Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witching—using a forked stick to indicate an underground source of water—persists in both rural and urban areas. Water Witching U.S.A. is a lively look at "dowsing," full of personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments and a nationwide survey. This study includes a collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, and early instances of dowsing, as well as cross-sectional views contrasting the dowser's explanation of groundwater with the geologist's.

Water Witching U.S.A.

Politics & Social Sciences

Hyman, Ray

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major statement of a position developed over the past decade, this book both epitomizes and explains Loury's understanding of the depressed conditions of so much of black society today--and the origins, consequences, and implications for the future of these conditions.  Using an economist's approach, Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how the restrictions placed on black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing racial thinking deny a whole segment of the population the possibility of self-actualization that American society reveres--something that many contend would be undermined by remedies such as affirmative action. On the contrary, this book persuasively argues that the promise of fairness and individual freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of intervention based on race.  Brilliant in its account of how racial classifications are created and perpetuated, and how they resonate through the social, psychological, spiritual, and economic life of the nation, this compelling and passionate book gives us a new way of seeing--and, perhaps, seeing beyond--the damning categorization of race in America.

Aerial Photography in Anthropological Field Research

Sociology

Harvard University Press

Modern Homesteaders: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Frontier Community

History

World

Belknap Press

Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

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