Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections such as ouch and yuck ; complement-taking predicates such as believe and desire ; and grammatical categories such as mood status and evidentiality. And more generally it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology linguistics psychology and philosophy.