Volume 10
Knowledge and Practices concerning Nature and the Universe
Food for the Soul: Eternal Co-existence in the Mayan-Catholic Traditions of Pomuch, Mexico
Food for the Soul: Eternal Co-existence in the Mayan-Catholic Traditions of Pomuch, Mexico
Mayan names.Photo: by permission of Eva Chaire, October 2013.
Mrs Rosa Yam showing a hipil.
The dough is wrapped in banana leaves.
Covering the earth oven to cook the pibipollos.
Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
Wooden cross on top of bones.
Mr Rafael Pérez Novelo in his bakery ‘Pomuch’s Bread’.
Cleaning and dressing the bones.
Bones exposed at the cemetery in a family ossuary. Photo: by permission of Eva Chaire, October 2013.
Image of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.