Mad Jesus: The Final Testament of a Huichol Messiah from Northwest Mexico

by Timothy J. Knab

This is the story of an anthropologist's encounter with a Huichol Indian known as "Mad Jesus." Jes s was an artisan, a shaman, a self-styled prophet, a mad messiah, and a murderous mystic. Timothy J. Knab was a young anthropologist soliciting life histories from Huichols in Mexico City when they met. The life story of Jes s may have been the ravings of a madman, but it also embodied the Huichol anticipation of the return of Santo Cristo, the savior...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826332048
• ISBN13: 9780826332042
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"