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Integrating Politics and Cosmology: The History of Radial Pyramids at Quiriguá
Matthew Looper
The Cult of the Dead and the Subversion of State Justice in Moxos, Lowland Bolivia
Akira Saito
In the Book of Matthew Thus Spake John: Tzotzil Discourse
Robert M. Laughlin
La Virgen, las enfermedades y los espíritus: Pluralismo médico y romerías indígenas a El Quinche, Ecuador
Bernhard Wörrle
Tell Me, Maiden:The Maya Adaptation of a European Riddle Sequence
Amy George-Hirons
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Savage Other or Noble Ancestor? The Ch'olwinq of Q'eqchi' Maya Folklore
Jon Schackt
Anacondas from Nature to Culture in Quechua Myths and Narratives
Janis B. Nuckolls
Cupisnique Iconography: Ideology and Its Manifestations in an Ancient Andean Culture
Kayoko Toshihara
Constructing a Supernatural Landscape through Talk:
Creation and Recreation in the Central Amazon of Brazil
Janet Chernela and Patricia Pinho
Music and Female Imagery in the Candomblé Religion of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Clarence Bernard Henry
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Editorial Board
Editor: Johannes Wilbert, professor emeritus, UCLA
Associate Editor: Lawrence E. Sullivan, Harvard University
Consulting Editors: Peter T. Furst, professor emeritus, State University
of New York, Albany; research associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology and Museum of New Mexico;
David Guss, Tufts University
James W. Wilkie, UCLA
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