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.
| ISBN: | 9780806131955 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 1999 |
| Author: | Richard Wilson |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Genres: |
Anthropology Sociology and anthropology |
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.
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala features in the following genres: Anthropology, Sociology and anthropology
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala is available in Paperback
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala was written by Richard Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala has 392 pages