Answered Prayers Miracles and Milagros along the Border / by Oktavec, Eileen

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Chiapas: prayer for the weavers / by Gleason, Judith

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Mexican firecrackers : a prayer and a festival.

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The history of the future in Colonial Mexico / by O'Hara, Matthew D. 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confessions -- Stars -- Money -- Prayers -- Promises -- Epilogue.…”
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Goodbye, Mexico : poems of remembrance /

Table of Contents: “…Mexico: cradle of myth -- Mexico: catch-basin of desire -- Mexico: always glistening -- Mexico: prayer blossoming a path -- Mexico: labyrinth of labyrinths -- Mexico: a broken place.…”
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Painted words : Nahua Catholicism, politics, and memory in the Atzaqualco pictorial catechism / by Boone, Elizabeth Hill, Burkhart, Louise M., 1958-, Tavárez, David Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…The Atzaqualco catechism and colonial Mexican catechismal pictography -- A merger of preconquest and New Spanish systems -- The pictographic vocabulary: ideography, phonography, and syntax -- Christian doctrine: Nahuas encouter the catechism -- Rule, service, and privilege in the pictorial additions -- Mutable memories: the Moteuczomas and Nahua nobilty in the Atzaqualco catechism -- Deciphering the catechism -- Annotations on the catechism -- Afterword: painting piety and politics -- Appendix A: supplementary prayers -- Appendix B: indentification of name glosses for historical figures.…”

Materializing ritual practices /

Table of Contents: “…Charlotte Arnauld -- The role of altars in Maya public rituals of the Classic Period : analysis and contexts of the associated deposits / Philippe Nondédéo, Johann Begel, Julien Hiquet, Julie Patrois, Isaac Barrientos and Marisa Vazquez -- Materiality and agentivity of house building rituals : an ethno-archaeological approach / Johann Begel, Marie Chosson, and Cédric Becquey -- Heaps of prayers : the materiality of Catholic prayers, their temporal dimension and ritual effectiveness within Nahua ritual discourse / Alessandro Lupo -- Communities of engaged performance : investigating the materiality of sound in Precolumbian Greater Nicoya / Katrina Casey Kosyk -- Sensing time through materiality : two Prehispanic sound-related artifacts on exhibit at the Museo Delle Civiltà, Rome / Valeria Bellomia -- The importance of the Tunk'ul in the ritual and ceremonial song of the Carnival of Pomuch, Campeche : an interdisciplinary study / Francisca Zalaquett Rock, Olivier Le Guen, Giovani Balam Caamal, and Juan Carrillo González.…”
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Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross / by Hanks, William F.

Table of Contents: “…Converting words -- From field to genre and habitus -- First words : from Spanish to Maya -- Commensuration : Maya as a matrix language -- The grammar of reducción and the art of speaking -- The canonical word -- Part III: Into the breach : the dispersion of Maya reducido -- The scripted landscape -- Petitions as prayers in the field of reducción -- Cross talk in the books of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue : full circle.…”
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No Mere Shadows : Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico. by Flint, Shirley Cushing

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Widowhood; 2: Doña Marina Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería Takes the Reins; 3: Doña Luisa de Estrada Challenges Escheatment of Her Encomiendas; 4: Doña Francisca de Estrada Outwits a Royal Official; 5: Doña Beatriz de Estrada Chooses Prayer; 6: Doña María de Sosa Presents Her Case to the Crown; 7: A Family of Widows in Perspective; Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.…”
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Nahua and Maya Catholicisms : texts and religion in colonial central Mexico and Yucatan / by Christensen, Mark Z.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: different texts, different versions -- Spelling out salvation -- The pen is mightier than the sword -- Getting down to the basics: commandments and prayers -- "One God, one faith, one baptism" -- The various confessions of Mesoamerica -- Adam's world tree and Paul's idol -- Voices from the dust -- Saintly devotion -- Conclusion: Nahua and Maya Catholicisms -- Appendixes: A. …”
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The Early Mesoamerican Village : UPDATED EDITION. by Flannery, Kent V.

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Words of the true peoples : anthology of contemporary Mexican indigenous-language writers.

Table of Contents: “…Nos recibe nuestra madreTs' e' ndi sitjo; Prayer to the Little Mushrooms; Rezo de los honguitos; Ts' e ' kjuab' ets' atji; Prayer to Plead for Others; Rezo para rogar por otras personas; Ts' e' naNno; Green Tobacco Prayer; Rezo del piciete (tabaco); Nngo kjuanda b' ile si ts' e' jiso' nde; We Give Thanks to the Creator of the World; Le damos gracias al Dueño del Mundo; Ji na-in si-in kjua; You, Faithful Father; Tú, Padre fiel; Natalio Hernández; Toselti matinemican; Let Us Walk on Our Own; Caminemos solos; Tecueso titlachixtoque; Our Existence Is Sad; Es triste nuestra existencia.…”
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Becoming an ancestor : the Isthmus Zapotec way of death / by Royce, Anya Peterson

Table of Contents: “…Artists of Bread, Flowers, Prayers, and Music -- 4. Tending to the Dead -- 5. …”
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Modern Mayan : the Indian music of Chiapas, Mexico.

Table of Contents: “…Todos Santos (Chamula) -- Trumpet choir (Carranza) -- String quartet (Carranza) -- String trio and vocal (Zinnacantan) -- Tiger Stone song (Zinnacantan) -- Song of peace (Chalchiuitan) -- New Years prayer (Chalchiuitan) -- Drums and flute (Huistan) -- Ladies dance (Tenejapa) -- Catarina Sone (Majosic) -- Bull dance (Majosic) -- Kosh, kosh avakan kanan chi (Tenango) -- Flute and drum (Tenango) -- Majestic (Petalcingo) -- Good Friday service (Tila) -- Carneval (Tila) -- Senor de Tila (Tila) -- Metontic Christmas -- Chalchiuitan carnival -- San Bartolo Venustiano Carranza -- San Bartolo Venustiano Carranza -- Huistan : fiesta De Miguel -- Tenejapa : Majosic carnival -- Tenango -- Petalcingo : fiesta De Santa Lucia (Christmas) -- Guacitepec.…”
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A good map of all things : a picaresque novel / by Ríos, Alberto

Table of Contents: “…A Century of Tears -- The Prayer -- 5. The Asterisk Company -- The Obituary, the Proclamation of a Death -- 6. …”
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Dia De Los Muertos / by Lemons, Gary

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Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan / by Kunow, Marianna Appel, 1958-

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Women in Chiapas : making history in times of struggle and hope /

Table of Contents: “…Overview/ Chrsitine Kovice and Christine Eber -- Juana's story / Graciela Freyermuth Enciso -- Actions speak louder than words: Indigenous women and gendered resistance in the wake of Acteal / Shannon Speed -- the birth of guadalupe -- Indigenous children: we are not to blame / Ruperta Bautista Vazquez -- "I made myself from nothin": women and sex work in urban Chiapas / patty Kelly -- Letter from a Peace Camp / Heather sinclair -- Overview / Christine Kovic and Christine Eber -- Living their faith in troubled times: two Catholic women / Christine Eber -- Demanding their dignity as daughters of God: Catholic women and human rights / Christine Kovic -- Today, the women -- Irene: A catholic woman in Oschuc / Ilar gil Tebar -- Prayer for Carly / Margarita Perez Perez -- Protestantism and family dynamics in an indigenous community of highland Chiapas / Gabriela Patricia Robledo Hernandez -- Women's empowerment through religious change in Tenejapa / Susanna Rostas -- Overview / Christine Kovic and Christine Eber -- Contemporary women's movements in Chiapas / Ines Castro Apreza -- J'pas Joloviletick-Jolom Mayaetick-K'inal Antzetik: An organizational experience of indigenous and Mestiza women / Yoland Castro Apreza -- Companeras -- Learning everything I can about freedom: testimony of a social worker and popular educator / Diana Damian Palencia -- Song for international women's day, March 8, 1997 / Flor de Margarita Perez Perez --Hacia la Autonomia: Zapatista women developing a new work / Melissa M. …”
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