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Michel Boccara et al., « Le savoir des meno'ob et le pouvoir de l'air (ik') », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10.19130/iifl.ecm.55.2020.0009
The main object of this paper is to present the work and cosmovision ofMaría Candelaria Pech Witz, x-men of Calkiní, Campeche, México, and bring complementarydata about the knowledge of the meno’ob (both men and women, h-meno’oband x-meno’ob) in order to try to fill the gap on the activities of the x-meno’ob. Wealso intend to deepen the Maya central notion for the concept of ik’, translated inSpanish as aire (air) or viento (wind). The words and practices of María CandelariaPech Witz, in relation with observations of dozen of other Maya practitioners, permitto present the knowledge of the meno’ob of the Yucatan Peninsula, as well asillustrate the importance of the variations, regional and individual, of the Mayacosmovision.