In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's ...
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In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft.?Henry H. Selby
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Textual map & tables. Minor rubbing, VG, dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xxii, 476 pp. Contents: An Outline of Weathermaking, Nahualism, and Sorcery in Rural Tlaxcala; The Belief System & Structural Context of Bloodsucking Witchcraft in Rural Tlaxcala; The Syncretic & Historical Development of Anthropmorphic Supernaturalism in Mesoamerica; The Comparative Distribution & Definition of Witchcraft & Sorcery in Mesoamerica; Anatomy of a Bloodsucking Witchcraft Epidemic; The Empirical Evidence of Bloodsucking Witchcraft: Methodology & Systematic Presentation; Natural & Supernatural Explanations: The Logic of Witchcraft & Normative Expectations; The Diagnostic & Etiological Analysis of Bloodsucking Witchcraft; Social & Psychological Manipulations and the Ex Post Facto Rationalization of the Tlahuelpuchi Complex; Aftereffects & the Psychological Context of the Postsucking Period; The Social & Psychological Functions of Bloodsucking Witchcraft; An Epistemological Approach to the Study of Magic & Religious Supernaturalism.
