From the Book - First U.S. edition.
The first inhabitants of the earth
The underside of idolatry
The testimony provided by place names
The metamorphoses of spirits
A provisional balance sheet
Conquering and defending the land
Encountering the spirits of the local land
Taking possession of a piece of land
Circumambulation : appropriation, expropriation, and protection rite
Boundaries and their markings
The enclosed space is sacred
The contract with the spirits
The circular and the rectangular : a hypothesis
The conquest of the space
Survivals and transformations
Waters, springs, and fountains
The mountain and its spirits
The problem of the paredra
A composite site : the dwelling of Grendel and his mother
The crossbreeding of myths
The return of the place spirits.
