pt. 1. Central America. Aztec religion : sacred cities, sacred actions / Davíd Carrasco -- Indigenous mythology from present-day Mexico / Alfredo López Austin -- Ritual and myth in Tlapanec life / Peter L. van der Loo -- Sacred forces of the Mayan universe / Mercedes de la Garza -- pt. 2. South America. The world and its end : cosmologies and eschatologies of South American Indians / Lawrence E. Sullivan -- Contemporary indigenous religious life in Peru / Juan M. Ossio -- The Baniwa / Robin M. Wright -- Inca religion : its foundations in the central Andean context / R. Tom Zuidema -- The religion of the Chamacoco (Ishír) Indians / Edgardo Jorge Cordeu -- The sacred as alienated social consciousness : ritual and cosmology among the Kayapó / Terence Turner -- Fragments of southern Tehuelche religiosity and myths / Alejandra Siffredi.