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In Mexicoas Sierra Norte de Puebla, beliefs that were held before the coming of Europeans continue to guide the lives of modern Aztecs. Anthropologist Knab learned the prayers and techniques for curing maladies of the human soul, and from his long association with these people has constructed a thorough account of their ancient beliefs and practices. This book is an important record of a culture that has maintained a precolumbian cosmovision for nearly 500 years, revealing that this system is as resonant today with the ethos of Mesoamerican peoples as it was for their ancestors. aTimothy Knab knows the place and people better than any non-Nahuat, and his profound knowledge shows.a a Jill Leslie McKeever Furst, author of The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico aA unique, resourceful, and personal ethnographic case study which details a belief system that considers itself much older than the crossing of Western philosophy to the Americas.a aLatin American Research Review
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Your first book seems so unreal, but this one just drags me back to the mundane world.
Your first book seems so unreal, but this one just drags me back to the mundane world.
Your first book seems so unreal, but this one just drags me back to the mundane world.
Your first book seems so unreal, but this one just drags me back to the mundane world.
Your first book seems so unreal, but this one just drags me back to the mundane world.
