Sylvia Marcos, PhD, researches, teaches, and publishes on gender issues in ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica.

• Introduction: Perspectives of Indigenous Religious Traditions from the Americas, Asia, and AustraliaPart I. Women, Family, and Environment1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories: Kungun and YunnanDiane Bell2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in PeruFrédérique Apffel-MarglinPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, and Authority3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the AmericasSylvia Marcos4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlán, Mexico: Women Priestesses in Popular ReligionAna María Salazar PeraltaPart III. Body, Mind, and Spirit5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Incarnation in Korea and VietnamLaurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis in the Highlands of Northeast IndiaDarilyn Syiem7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth ImageryJanet ChawlaPart IV. Sexuality, Power, and Vulnerability8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of PersonhoodAna Mariella Bacigalupo9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their Identities in Contemporary MexicoNuvia Balderrama VaraPart V. Women, World view, and Religious Practice10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Women's Quest for a Gendered SpiritualityMorna Macleod11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and Indigenous HealingRenee LinklaterSuggested ReadingAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex

Sylvia Marcos, PhD, researches, teaches, and publishes on gender issues in ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica.

• Introduction: Perspectives of Indigenous Religious Traditions from the Americas, Asia, and AustraliaPart I. Women, Family, and Environment1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories: Kungun and YunnanDiane Bell2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in PeruFrédérique Apffel-MarglinPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, and Authority3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the AmericasSylvia Marcos4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlán, Mexico: Women Priestesses in Popular ReligionAna María Salazar PeraltaPart III. Body, Mind, and Spirit5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Incarnation in Korea and VietnamLaurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis in the Highlands of Northeast IndiaDarilyn Syiem7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth ImageryJanet ChawlaPart IV. Sexuality, Power, and Vulnerability8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of PersonhoodAna Mariella Bacigalupo9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their Identities in Contemporary MexicoNuvia Balderrama VaraPart V. Women, World view, and Religious Practice10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Women's Quest for a Gendered SpiritualityMorna Macleod11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and Indigenous HealingRenee LinklaterSuggested ReadingAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex

Sylvia Marcos, PhD, researches, teaches, and publishes on gender issues in ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica.

• Introduction: Perspectives of Indigenous Religious Traditions from the Americas, Asia, and AustraliaPart I. Women, Family, and Environment1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories: Kungun and YunnanDiane Bell2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in PeruFrédérique Apffel-MarglinPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, and Authority3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the AmericasSylvia Marcos4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlán, Mexico: Women Priestesses in Popular ReligionAna María Salazar PeraltaPart III. Body, Mind, and Spirit5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Incarnation in Korea and VietnamLaurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis in the Highlands of Northeast IndiaDarilyn Syiem7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth ImageryJanet ChawlaPart IV. Sexuality, Power, and Vulnerability8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of PersonhoodAna Mariella Bacigalupo9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their Identities in Contemporary MexicoNuvia Balderrama VaraPart V. Women, World view, and Religious Practice10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Women's Quest for a Gendered SpiritualityMorna Macleod11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and Indigenous HealingRenee LinklaterSuggested ReadingAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex