The jaguar and the priest

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"This book will be a classic in Maya ethnography...The field of study of Maya souls is surprisingly well tilled, but Pitarch pushes our understanding forward with the depth of his engaging descriptions and the analytic complexity he is able to capture. The data presented here are remarkably rich. Pitarch offers the sort of documentation that will make this a valuable work for years to come, and the sort of enduring ethnography that will not be dated in a few years."--Edward F. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University. "This book is a brilliant exegesis of the concept of soul and its relationship to identity, history, memory, and personhood in Cancuc, a Tzeltal-speaking township in Chiapas, Mexico.... Pitarch's study is an example of the best of fine-grained ethnographic analysis."--Christine E. Eber, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University --Book Jacket.