Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. Focusing on the primary participants in the annual festival in the K'iche' Maya village of Santiago Momostenango, the authors show how older religious traditionalists and the new generation of "cultural activist" religious practitioners interact within a single local community, and how their competing agendas for adapting Maya religiosity to a new and continually changing political economy are perpetuating and changing Maya religious traditions.
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Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. Focusing on the primary participants in the annual festival in the K'iche' Maya village of Santiago Momostenango, the authors show how older religious traditionalists and the new generation of "cultural activist" religious practitioners interact within a single local community, and how their competing agendas for adapting Maya religiosity to a new and continually changing political economy are perpetuating and changing Maya religious traditions.
Imprint | University of New Mexico Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | June 2013 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | June 2013 |
Authors | Garrett W Cook, Thomas A. Offit |
Contributors | Rhonda Taube |
Dimensions | 236 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket |
Pages | 264 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8263-5318-4 |
Barcode | 9780826353184 |
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LSN | 0-8263-5318-5 |