Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World (e-bog) af Offit, Thomas A.
Offit, Thomas A. (forfatter)

Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World e-bog

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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 Momostena...
E-bog 509,93 DKK
Forfattere Offit, Thomas A. (forfatter), Taube, Rhonda (medforfatter)
Udgivet 15 juni 2013
Længde 264 sider
Genrer Social and cultural anthropology
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780826353191
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 "e;cultural activist"e; 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.