Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town

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Index (Author’s note: When a footnote needs to be placed in context for understanding, the page number follows the footnote in parentheses, as in 232n.38(49), where footnote 38 on page 232 refers to material on page 49.) abstinence, sexual, 168, 231n.34 Acuña, Rene, 224n.4 Aguilero, Miguel, 259–260n.31 Aj Itz, 119–136, 138–139, 254n.12. See also K’ak’ic’oxol aj mesa, 226–227n.16 aj pop, 27, 102 Ak’abal, Julian, 16; texts, 239–240n.10, 241–242n.22 alaxik (lineage segment), 98 alcalde: of aldea, 69–71; of cofradı́a, 36, 68, 91–92, 150, 155, 167–168; Indian (see sı́ndico segundo); municipal, 7 altars: general, 23, 68, 98–99; mesa, 137, 158, 159; uja’l, 28, 70, 82; ujuyubal, 28, 70, 75; warabal ja, 98–100, 146–147, 163–165, 167, 168, 241n.15; winel, 98– 100. See also shrine Alvarado, Pedro de, 119–140, 145, 206, 247n.23 amak, 3, 223n.3, 228n.4 ancestors, 171, 198, 230–231n.30, 231– 232n.37, 232n.38(49), 241n.15, 244n.37, 248–249n.32, 256–257n.20 armatures, cutural, 185, 188 auxiliatura, 7, 66, 76, 137–138, 230n.28, 253–254n.9 Awilix, 27, 28 Barrett, Richard, 226n.13 Batzbal, Francisca, 148 Boston (or Botones), Pedro (dance character ), 109, 110 Brasseur de Bourborg, Abbe Etienne, 224n.4 Bricker, Victoria, 185, 188, 244–245n.2 bride, spirit, 60–61 bundles, sacred, 87, 88 Bunzel, Ruth, 148, 232n.41 cabawil, 4, 96, 195–202, 235n.12, 257n.21 cabildo, 40, 253–254n.9 caciques, 4, 40, 80, 192, 199, 253–254n.9 cahal, 198 calel, 27, 102 calpul, territorial unit, 29, 32, 103, 228n.7 calvario, 23, 161–165, 231n.30, 259– 260n.31 c’amal be, 38–39, 75, 259n.30 c’amo junab, 72, 73 Campa, Arthur, 180 Campbell, Joseph, 208, 255n.18 canı́cula, 108, 199, 238n.3 Capitagua. See Jesucristo Carlsen, Robert, 141, 143, 185, 214, 225– 226n.11, 259n.31 Carmack, Robert M., 31, 196, 223n.1(3), 223n.3, 225n.10, 227n.2, 229n.12, 239n.7, 253–254n.9 Castellana, Marı́a, 148 Castillo, Domingo, 17; texts, 99–100 Castillo, Miguel, 17–18; texts, 52–53, 125– 137 Catarina (dance character), 109, 110 Catholic Action, 11, 44–45, 79, 229n.18, 231n.34 cave, 161, 164, 165, 231n.30 Cawek (a lineage), 27, 228n.7 Chance, John K., 9, 39, 232n.39 chinamit, 3, 27, 29, 227n.2, 228n.4 Christenson, Allen, 108 chuch axel, 36 chuch kajaw, 98, 99, 109–110, 112–115, 137, 157, 167, 178 Chuwa Tz’ak. See Momostenango, prehispanic Cifuentes, Teodoro, 32, 246–247n.19 cofradı́a: 26–27, 31–32, 193, 232n.40 cofradı́as, Momostecan: 35–41; conflicts and politics of, 31, 39–40, 44–45, 65– 66, 72, 76, 78, 80–81, 97, 230n.28, 231n.34, 231n.35, 234n.1, 234– 235n.9(72), 235n.16, 249n.34; costs and benefits of service in, 40–43, 46– 50, 71, 89, 160–162, 167, 168, 232n.40, 236n.23(89); dangers of service in, 47, 48, 101, 162–164; festivals and rituals of, 36–37, 38 (Table 1), 42–43, 88, 150–155, 246n.15, 246n.18, 247n.20; origins and history of, 27–35, 76, 82, 193, 235n.16, 250n.46; in parcialidades, 31–35; recruitment in, 42–43, 48, 249n.34; transmission of lore in, 37, 41–42, 101– 102, 162, 193–195. See also primeros; saints Concepción, Marı́a (i.e. Virgen Marı́a de la Concepción): cofradı́a of, 160; image of, 28, 29, 215, 259–260n.31; parcialidad of, 29 continuity thesis. See cultural continuity, Maya contraries, 251n.56(175) Contreras, Pedro, 18; texts, 40–43, 160–164, 167–170 286 Renewing the Maya World conventions, stylistic, 223n.2 Corpus: cofradı́a of, 35, 150, 155, 159, 167, 170, 171, 246n.15, 248n.25(159); image of, (see Jesucristo) cosmogony. See myth, cosmogonic Costumbre (religion of the Costumbristas): defined/described, 5, 11, 12, 61, 81, 118, 225n.7; opposition to, 10–12, 225n.6, 230n.24, 231n.34, 233–234n.56, 246n.17, 249n.34; Origins of (myth text), 252n.61; universalism of, 25–26 costumbres (traditional religious practices): of auxiliatura, 137, 138; of Corpus, 160– 164; defined/described, 11, 102, 167, 169, 186, 194, 195, 211, 225n.7, 233n.56, 243n.28; of Monkeys Dance, 109–117, 234n.7; of Niño...