TY - JOUR
TI - Elementy duchowe w wierzeniach rdzennych Nahua z gór Zongolica w Meksyku
AU - Michalik, Piotr
TI - Elementy duchowe w wierzeniach rdzennych Nahua z gór Zongolica w Meksyku
AB - 
	Spiritual Elements in Beliefs of the Nahua from Sierra Zongolica, Mexico

	This paper discusses beliefs associated with human spiritual elements (often called “souls”) held by the indigenous Nahua from Sierra Zongolica, Mexico. Spiritual elements, such as tonalli, nawalli, and yolotl form part of a complex of correlated and often overlapping concepts. Such semantic intricacy related to the notion of a spiritual element is not just a local peculiarity of Sierra Zongolica. It appears in ethnographic data concerning other Nahuatl speaking areas, as well as in early colonial sources. Th erefore, the case of Nahua beliefs constitutes a challenge to monosemantic, unambiguous defi nitions of Mesoamerican indigenous concepts of human spiritual elements, as presented by many anthropologists and ethnohistorians.
VL - 2014
IS - Tom 42, Numer 1
PY - 2014
SN - 0083-4327
C1 - 2299-9558
SP - 79
EP - 94
DO - 10.4467/22999558.PE.14.006.1707
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/elementy-duchowe-w-wierzeniach-rdzennych-nahua-z-gor-zongolica-w-meksyku
KW - Mexico
KW - Nahua
KW - indigenous beliefs
KW - traditional medicine
KW - spiritual elements