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A vivid, complex, and concise portrait of cultural continuity, social cohesion, and conflict in a town of Tzutujil Maya-speaking people of Guatemala.... Carlsen launches into an exploration of the capacity of these people to persist through centuries of oppression and of the culture to survive and regenerate even under circumstances of extreme violent repression.... a novel and eminently readable approach to local-level social and cultural history. * Choice *

A vivid, complex, and concise portrait of cultural continuity, social cohesion, and conflict in a town of Tzutujil Maya-speaking people of Guatemala.... Carlsen launches into an exploration of the capacity of these people to persist through centuries of oppression and of the culture to survive and regenerate even under circumstances of extreme violent repression.... a novel and eminently readable approach to local-level social and cultural history.

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Robert Carlsen recently retired from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado where he taught for twenty years. He is now an independent researcher. Dr. Carlsen’s research addresses diverse aspects of Guatemala’s cultural beauty and political tragedy with a particular focus on the Mayan textile arts and on Mayan cultural continuity and change.

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