Maya Resurgence in Guatemala by Richard Wilson
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.
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9780806131955 |
| ISBN 10 | 0806131950 |
| Title | Maya Resurgence in Guatemala |
| Author | Richard Wilson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Year published | 2002-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
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