Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826353184
Subjects: Mayas, religion; Guatemala, social conditions; Festivals; Shamanism
Description: "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"--Front jkt. flap.