Maya resurgence in Guatemala : Q'eqchi' experiences
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Maya resurgence in Guatemala : Q'eqchi' experiences
University of Oklahoma Press, c1995
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Bibliography: p. [341]-361
Includes index
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ISBN 9780806126906
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This text offers an exploration of the ways in which Q'eqchi's have responded to profound social dislocations by attempting to revive their ancestral ways. It explores the vital role the mountain spirits play in agricultural production and human reproduction.
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: pbk ISBN 9780806131955
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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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