| Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'Eqchi' Experiences Contributor(s): Wilson, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806131950 ISBN-13: 9780806131955 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Central America - History | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.897 |
| LCCN: 94036177 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.41" W x 8.47" (0.97 lbs) 373 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Richard: - Richard Wilson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He served as a consultant for the documentary series Before Columbus, which first ran on British television in 1992. He co-edited (with B. Gills and J. Rocamora) Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order, published by Pluto Press/ Westview Press, London 1993.ÿ |
