TY - JOUR
TI - Man and his souls. Spiritual elements in beliefs and traditional medicine of the Nahua from Sierra Zongolica, Mexico
	 
AU - Michalik, Piotr
TI - Man and his souls. Spiritual elements in beliefs and traditional medicine of the Nahua from Sierra Zongolica, Mexico
	 
AB - 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 - Volume 42, Issue 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/en/journal/prace-etnograficzne/article/elementy-duchowe-w-wierzeniach-rdzennych-nahua-z-gor-zongolica-w-meksyku
KW - Mexico
KW - Nahua
KW - indigenous beliefs
KW - traditional medicine
KW - spiritual elements