The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town : : Revised Edition /

The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town : : Revised Edition / / Robert S. Carlsen.

This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continue...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Carlsen, Robert S.,
MitwirkendeR:
Carrasco, David,
Prechtel, Martin,
TeilnehmendeR:
Carrasco, Davíd.
Prechtel, Martín.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (249 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Foreword: Complex Performance in Santiago Atitlan
  • Preface to the Revised Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE ESTABLISHING PLACE AND IMAGINING COMMUNITY
  • 1. What in the World Is Going On in Santiago Atitlán?
  • 2. The Atiteco Mayas at the End of the Twentieth Century
  • 3. The Flowering of the Dead
  • PART TWO HISTORY, PERIPHERALITY, AND SOCIAL PLURALISM
  • 4. Conquest and Adaptation in Santiago Atitlán
  • 5. On Enlightenment, Liberalism, and Ladinos
  • PART THREE Death of Community, Resurrection of Autonomy
  • 6. Under the Gun in Santiago Atitlán
  • 7. When Immortals Die
  • 8. Season of the Witch: The New Millennium in Santiago Atitlán
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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