Victoria R. Bricker is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Tulane University.

There is every reason to believe that Victoria Bricker's monograph will become a classic in its niche of Mesoamerican studies. It is at once an application, based on the author's own fieldwork in three Tzotzil-speaking Indian communities in Chiapas, Mexico, of the much-lauded ... middle range of generalization in the tradition of controlled comparison; a comprehensive survey of ritual humor in Mesoamerican ethnohistoric documents; and, finally, a broad comparative overview of ritual humor throughout modern Mesoamerica and the United States Southwest. (American Anthropologist)

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Woman’s Place 3. The Entertainers 4. ¡Bomba! 5. Chamula: Crazy February! 6. Pandora’s Box 7. The Moral Dimension of Ritual Humor 8. Metaphors of Social Criticism 9. Ritual Humor in Space and Time 10. The Social Meaning of Ritual Humor Bibliography Index

Victoria R. Bricker is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Tulane University.

There is every reason to believe that Victoria Bricker's monograph will become a classic in its niche of Mesoamerican studies. It is at once an application, based on the author's own fieldwork in three Tzotzil-speaking Indian communities in Chiapas, Mexico, of the much-lauded ... middle range of generalization in the tradition of controlled comparison; a comprehensive survey of ritual humor in Mesoamerican ethnohistoric documents; and, finally, a broad comparative overview of ritual humor throughout modern Mesoamerica and the United States Southwest. (American Anthropologist)

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Woman’s Place 3. The Entertainers 4. ¡Bomba! 5. Chamula: Crazy February! 6. Pandora’s Box 7. The Moral Dimension of Ritual Humor 8. Metaphors of Social Criticism 9. Ritual Humor in Space and Time 10. The Social Meaning of Ritual Humor Bibliography Index

Victoria R. Bricker is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Tulane University.

There is every reason to believe that Victoria Bricker's monograph will become a classic in its niche of Mesoamerican studies. It is at once an application, based on the author's own fieldwork in three Tzotzil-speaking Indian communities in Chiapas, Mexico, of the much-lauded ... middle range of generalization in the tradition of controlled comparison; a comprehensive survey of ritual humor in Mesoamerican ethnohistoric documents; and, finally, a broad comparative overview of ritual humor throughout modern Mesoamerica and the United States Southwest. (American Anthropologist)

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Woman’s Place 3. The Entertainers 4. ¡Bomba! 5. Chamula: Crazy February! 6. Pandora’s Box 7. The Moral Dimension of Ritual Humor 8. Metaphors of Social Criticism 9. Ritual Humor in Space and Time 10. The Social Meaning of Ritual Humor Bibliography Index