Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World

by Garrett W. Cook and Thomas A. Offit

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826353185
• ISBN13: 9780826353184
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"