Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town

by Garrett W. Cook

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712251
• ISBN13: 9780292712256
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"