Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World

Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9780826353191
ISBN-13 : 0826353193
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Book Synopsis Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World by : Garrett W. Cook

Download or read book Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World written by Garrett W. Cook and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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