Cultures

• Tzeltal Maya
  
  

Sites

• Chiapas, Mexico
  
  

Terms / Concepts

• cargo
  
  
• emic view (native view)
  
  
• religious syncretism
  

Seven-year-old Maya Indian Litzy Moo
pays homage to the bones of her grandmother on October 29, 2006
National Geographic

Web-Sites

• Maya of Tenejapa -- Science Museum of Minnesota
  
  
• Tzeltal Mayan Resource Page -- Michelle Marie Day
  
  
• San Cristobal: The Heart of Chiapas -- Randy Johnson
  
  
  

Publications

• Cancian, Frank. 1965. Economics and Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacanton. Stanford.
  
  
• Collier, John, Jr. 1968. American Anthropologist 70:1050-1051.
  
  
• Pozas, Ricardo. 1969. Juan the Chamula: An Ethnological Re-creation of the Life of a Mexican Indian. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pozas, Ricardo. 1952. Juan Perez Jolote. México: Colección Popular, Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE). [ISBN 9681603281]

    

• Vogt, Evon Z. 1969. "Cargo Rituals I" and "Cargo Rituals II" in Zinacantan: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapss. Cambridge: Haravard University Press.
  
  
• Vogt, Evon Z. 1970. The Zinacantecos of Mexico : A Modern Maya Way of Life. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.