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Author:   Garrett W. Cook
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292712256

ISBN 10:   0292712251
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 October 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Narratives Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Santiago Momostenango In the Time of the Great Earthquake: The Fieldwork and Its Setting A Collection of Texts Organization of the Work Part 1: The Institutional Context Chapter 2: Religious Sodalities of Momostenango: The Communal Cult Institutions Saints and Sodalities The Sodalities and Ritual Complexes The Cofradias The Dance Teams Serving Jesucristo and the Saints Chapter 3: Traveling Saints Nino San Antonio Patron Santiago Replication in Momostecan Cult Institutions Maya Themes in the Cult of the Saints Part 2: The Ritual Symbols and Their Meanings Chapter 4: Cosmogonic Tree Raisings and Sunrises World Trees and Momostecan Cosmogony The Conquest and the Spanish Sunrise Chapter 5: Secrets and Ordeals of Holy Week Costumbrista Holy Week San Simon Corpus and Santa Cruz Serpentine Flowers from the Coast The Tzulab The Flowering Cross and Quichean Tradition Chapter 6: Continuity in the Quichean Expressive Culture Tradition Continuity Sodalities, Saints, and Cabawils A Complicated Quichean Tradition of Idolatry World Trees at Momostenango and Palenque Continuity in the Central Rite of Renewal: The Holy Week Complex and Quichean Tradition Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Renewing the Maya World is based on long-term fieldwork and close attention to recent scholarship on pre-Columbian Maya. Times Literary Supplement, August 16, 2002

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Garrett W. Cook is Professor of Anthropology at Baylor University.

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