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By Robert S. Carlsen,Davíd Carrasco,Martín Prechtel

ISBN-10: 029271193X

ISBN-13: 9780292711938

ISBN-10: 0292723989

ISBN-13: 9780292723986

This compelling ethnography explores the difficulty of cultural continuity and alter because it has opened up within the consultant Guatemala Mayan city Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on a number of assets, Robert S. Carlsen argues that neighborhood Mayan tradition survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and persevered to play a defining function for a lot of the next 5 centuries. He additionally exhibits how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan kingdom progressively eroded the capability of the neighborhood Mayas to conform to alter and eventually brought on a few factions to reject—even demonize—their personal heritage and tradition. even as, he explains how, after a decade of army profession often called l. a. violencia, Santiago Atitlán stood up in solidarity to the Guatemalan military in 1990 and compelled it to depart town.This new version appears at how Santiago Atitlán has fared because the expulsion of the military. Carlsen explains that, in the beginning, there has been desire that the renewed cohesion that had served town so good might proceed. He argues that such hopes were undermined by means of a number of resources, usually with extraordinary results. one of the components he examines are the impression of transnational crime, rather gangs with ties to l. a.; the increase of vigilantism and its relation to renewed spiritual factionalism; the comparable brutal murders of fans of the normal Mayan faith; and the apocalyptic fervor underlying those events.

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