TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carlsen,Robert S.
AU  - Prechtel,Martín
AU  - Carrasco,David
TI  - The war for the heart & soul of a highland Maya town
SN  - 029273476X
AV  - F1465.2.T9 C37 2011eb
U1  - 972.81/64 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Tzutuhil Indians
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Tzutuhil philosophy
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social change
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - Santiago Atitlán
KW  - Tzutuhil
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Philosophie tzutuhil
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Central America
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala)
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index; pt. 1; Establishing place and imagining community --; pt. 2; History, peripherality, and social pluralism --; pt. 3; Death of community, resurrection of autonomy
N2  - This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state steadily eroded the capacity of the local Mayas to adapt to change and ultimately caused some factions to reject-even demonize-their own history and culture. At the same time, he explains how, after a decade of military occupation known as la violencia, Santiago Atitlán stood up in unity to the Guatemalan Army in 1990 and forced it to leave town. This new edition looks at how Santiago Atitlán has fared since the expulsion of the army. Carlsen explains that, initially, there was hope that the renewed unity that had served the town so well would continue. He argues that such hopes have been undermined by multiple sources, often with bizarre outcomes. Among the factors he examines are the impact of transnational crime, particularly gangs with ties to Los Angeles; the rise of vigilantism and its relation to renewed religious factionalism; the related brutal murders of followers of the traditional Mayan religion; and the apocalyptic fervor underlying these events
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