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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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.�
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Wilson effectively blends a number of theorectical threads to create a moving and powerful image of Maya ethnicity in the late 20th century.
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I originally went to Guatemala in 1987 to study how Catholic base communities were involved in the formation of rural peasant leagues and trade unions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
catechist program, urban catechists, mountain awas, human awas, food awas, indigenist ideas, catechist meeting, catechist courses, catechist movement, cave sacrifice, cold distinctions, ethnic revivalists, labor reciprocity, crop ritual, mountain cult, many catechists, first catechists, spirit loss, earth cult, indigenist movement, planting pole, ethnic revivalism, civil patrols, planting rituals, mountain spirits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alta Verapaz, Latin America, Word of God, Guiteras Holmes, Qawa Quk'a, Carol Smith, Thirteen Great Tzuultaq'as, Kay Warren, Christian God, Taki Onqoy, Catholic Action, Estrada Monroy, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Robert Carmack, America's Watch, Father Pacheco, Ignacio Bizarro, John Watanabe, Michael Taussig, Mother Moon, North American, San Vicente, Santiago Chimaltenango, Benedict Anderson New!
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I originally went to Guatemala in 1987 to study how Catholic base communities were involved in the formation of rural peasant leagues and trade unions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
catechist program, urban catechists, mountain awas, human awas, food awas, indigenist ideas, catechist meeting, catechist courses, catechist movement, cave sacrifice, cold distinctions, ethnic revivalists, labor reciprocity, crop ritual, mountain cult, many catechists, first catechists, spirit loss, earth cult, indigenist movement, planting pole, ethnic revivalism, civil patrols, planting rituals, mountain spirits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alta Verapaz, Latin America, Word of God, Guiteras Holmes, Qawa Quk'a, Carol Smith, Thirteen Great Tzuultaq'as, Kay Warren, Christian God, Taki Onqoy, Catholic Action, Estrada Monroy, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Robert Carmack, America's Watch, Father Pacheco, Ignacio Bizarro, John Watanabe, Michael Taussig, Mother Moon, North American, San Vicente, Santiago Chimaltenango, Benedict Anderson New!
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- History and Ethnicity (Asa Monographs) by Elizabeth Tonkin on 5 pages
- Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock on page 72, page 80, and Back Matter
- Churches and Politics in Latin America (SAGE Focus Editions) by Daniel H. Levine in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Pig Earth by John Berger on page 52, and Back Matter
- Maya History and Religion (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by J. Thompson on page 61, and Back Matter
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- Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala by Victoria Sanford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What Justice? Whose Justice?: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America by Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley on page 284, and page 336
- Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows In Guatemala by Judith Zur in Back Matter
- Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America (Religion in the Age of Transformation) by James W. Dow on page 233
- A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala by Diane M. Nelson in Back Matter
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