Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World

by John M. Watanabe

Book Overview

The Maya of Santiago Chimaltenango have experienced increasingly rapid, even violent, integration into Guatemalan society in the last fifty years, yet they still distinguish themselves ethnically from Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and other Maya. Why this sense of ethnic identity persists--and also changes--over time is the focus of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World, a beautifully written ethnography of a Mam-speaking Maya town in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292751419
• ISBN13: 9780292751415
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"