The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing

by Frank J. Lipp Jr. and Frank J Lipp

Book Overview

The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition, in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292747055
• ISBN13: 9780292747050
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"