Maya Resurgence in Guatemala

Maya Resurgence in Guatemala
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0806131950
ISBN-13 : 9780806131955
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Book Synopsis Maya Resurgence in Guatemala by : Richard Wilson

Download or read book Maya Resurgence in Guatemala written by Richard Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Guatemala, Mayan peoples are struggling to recover from decades of cataclysmic upheaval--religious conversions, civil war, displacement, military repression. Richard Wilson carried out long-term research with Q’eqchi’-speaking Mayas in the province of Alta Verapaz to ascertain how these events affected social organization and identity. He finds that their rituals of fertility and healing--abandoned in the 1970s during Catholic and Protestant evangelizations--have been reinvented by an ethnic revivalist movement led by Catholic lay activists, who seek to renovate the earth cult in order to create a new pan-Q’eqchi’ ethnic identity.


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