Ritual and Historical Territoriality of the Cora (Náyari) and Huichol (Wixárika) Peoples

This special issue of the Journal of the Southwest concerns the indigenous Wixarika (Huichol) and Nayari (Cora) peoples of Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Durango in western Mexico, a region known since the colonial period as El Gran Nayar. It brings a new generation of researchers together with a senior master of the field. These authors share extensive fieldwork among the Wixaritari (Huichols) and Nayarite (Coras), as well as common interests in cosmology, ceremonialism, language, history, and sociopolitical structures. They are publishing here the results of their work in the spirit of the pioneer- ing collaborations initiated by Weigand, Hinton, Nahmad-Sitton, and other researchers during the 1970s (Hinton and Weigand 1981; Crumrine and Weigand 1987). This collection presents for the first time in English the results of this new international group of scholars.