Chol Ritual Language
with Terrence Lee Folmar, Heidi Altman, Ausencio Cruz Guzmán, and Bernardo Pérez Martínez
©1996 J. Kathryn Josserand and Nicholas A. Hopkins

Towards a Theory of Chol Religion

To date, we have accomplished only a preliminary analysis of the vocabulary items relating to Chol concepts of the sacred that occur in published texts and dictionaries as well as in our own field data. Even at this stage, however, the study of this lexicon complements impressions derived from ethnographic sources and our own observations about the nature of highland Chol religion as currently practiced, to give us a more certain understanding of religious activity in the Tila area. While we are by no means ready to attempt to formulate an adequate theory of Chol religious behavior, certain aspects of that behavior have become more apparent to us.

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