Entanglements of the Maya Universe

Alonso Rodrigo Zamora Corona teaches Ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico. His research interests are in Indigenous cosmologies, ontology and Indigenous writing systems in Mesoamerica.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on K’iche’ Ortography and TransliterationsMapsIntroduction: Mesoamerican Cosmologies and Social TheoryChapter 1. ‘The Law of Us, the Indigenous’Chapter 2. Seeing with Eyes of Fire: A Ritual Séance among a K’iche’ FamilyChapter 3. A Future That Already Happened: Time Magic in K’iche’ RitualsChapter 4. ‘If You See Me in Dreams, I Can Harm You’: On WitchcraftChapter 5. The Struggle for the Earth: The Cosmology of Activism and ResistanceChapter 6. Altars of History: War, Rituals and Social MemoryConclusion: What Is Cosmology?Appendix: Some K’iche’ Cosmological ConceptsGlossaryReferencesIndex

“This book constitutes an outstanding anthropological work delving on the current cosmo-sociopolitical configurations by K’iche’ Maya. It is full of keen observations ... an effervescent account of current local political and cultural nonlinear transformations.” • Alessandro Questa Rebolledo, Universidad Iberoamericana