The Mixe of Oaxaca

<p><i>The Mixe of Oaxaca</i> was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures design-plan corresponding prayers and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.</p>