Mad Jesus: The Final Testament of a Huichol Messiah from Northwest Mexico

by Timothy J. Knab

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This is the story of an anthropologist's encounter with a Huichol Indian known as "Mad Jesus." Jes s was an artisan, a shaman, a self-styled prophet, a mad messiah, and a murderous mystic. Timothy J. Knab was a young anthropologist soliciting life histories from Huichols in Mexico City when they met. The life story of Jes s may have been the ravings of a madman, but it also embodied the Huichol anticipation of the return of Santo Cristo, the savior...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0826332048

ISBN13:9780826332042

Release Date:April 2004

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Length:287 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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