Marcos, Sylvia,

Taken from the lips : gender and eros in Mesoamerican religions / Sylvia Marcos. - XXIII, 146 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centimetros. - Religion in the Americas series, vol. 5 .

Bibliografía : páginas 125-136. Índices: páginas 137-146.

Chaper one curing and cosmology -- Chapter two duality, fluidity, and equilibrium -- Chapter three the sacred earth of the nahuas -- Chapter four gender and healing rituals -- Chapter five fusion with the sacred: perception of women healers -- Chapter six corporelity religious metaphor, and narrative -- Chapter seven indigenous eroticism and colonial morality: the confession manuals of new spain -- Chapter eight scattering of jade: gendered moral discourse of the wise old women and men -- Chapter nine beyond mesoamecrica: the hermeneutics of orality.



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Cuerpo humano--Aspectos simbólicos--México.
Mujeres indígenas--Historiografía--México.
Indios de México--Religión.
Indios de México--Rit0s y ceremonias.

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