Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures, Maps, Tables, and Myths ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Phonetic Transcription of Veracruzan Teenek xvii
7. Introduction: Is the Sparrow Hawk Dying? 1
8. Part One The Teenek Universe
9. Chapter one The Natural and Social Landscape of Tantoyuca 21
10. Chapter Two Teenek Alliances 69
11. Chapter three A Problem of Boundaries 101
12. Conclusion to Part One 127
13. Part Two Messages From the Underworld
14. Chapter 4 The Reality of the Baatsik’ 133
15. Chapter Five Teenek Etiology 155
16. Chapter Six Teenek and Baatsik’: Terms of Coexistence 227
17. Conclusion to Part Two 247
18. Part Three Between Heaven and Earth
19. Chapter Seven “Hell is Other People” 265
20. Chapter Eight The Space of Memory 321
21. Conclusion to Part Three 375
22. Conclusion: The Culture of Marginality 387
23. Notes 395
24. Glossary of Acronyms and Foreign Terms 407
25. Bibliography 411
26. Index 423