Indigenous bodies, Maya minds : religion and modernity in a transnational K'iche' community /

Indigenous bodies, Maya minds : religion and modernity in a transnational K'iche' community /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	MacKenzie, C. James, author.
Imprint:	Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	IMS studies on culture and society series ; volume 9 Studies on culture and society ; v. 9.
Subject:	Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- San Andrés Xecul -- Social conditions. Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- San Andrés Xecul -- Ethnic identity. Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- San Andrés Xecul -- Religion. Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- San Andrés Xecul -- Migrations. Quiché Indians -- Relocation -- United States. Emigration and immigration. Quiché Indians -- Religion. Quiché Indians -- Social conditions. San Andrés Xecul (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration. United States -- Emigration and immigration. Guatemala -- San Andrés Xecul. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646072

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ISBN:	9781607323945 160732394X 160732556X 9781607325567 9781607323938 9781607325567 1607323931
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 27, 2016).
Summary:	""MacKenzie examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K'iche' Maya community of San Andres Xecul in the Guatemalan highlands, and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States"--Provided by publisher"--
Other form:	Print version: MacKenzie, C. James. Indigenous bodies, Maya minds. Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado ; Albany, New York : Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, [2016] 9781607323938

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Community and modernity
1. History, economics, and migration
2. Costumbre
3. Enthusiastic Christianity
4. Inculturation
5. Maya spirituality
6. Migration, religion, and ethnicity
Conclusion.