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ISBN: 0292712251

ISBN13: 9780292712256

Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town

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Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofrad as perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths,...

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Americas Ancient Central America Cultural Ethnic & Tribal Guatemala History Mayan Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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