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The Black Christ of Esquipulas

Author : Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803268432
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Black Christ of Esquipulas written by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New Mexico to Panama. Beyond being a site of popular devotion, however, the Black Christ of Esquipulas was also the scene of important debates about citizenship and identity in the Guatemalan nation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In The Black Christ of Esquipulas, Douglass Sullivan-González explores the multifaceted appeal of this famous shrine, its mysterious changes in color over the centuries, and its deeper significance in the spiritual and political lives of Guatemalans. Reconstructed from letters buried within the restricted Catholic Church archive in Guatemala City, the debates surrounding the shrine reflect the shifting categories of race and ethnicity throughout the course of the country’s political trajectory. This “biography” of the Black Christ of Esquipulas serves as an alternative history of Guatemala and sheds light on some of the most salient themes in Guatemala’s social and political history: state formation, interethnic dynamics, and church-state tensions. Sullivan-González’s study provides a holistic understanding of the relevance of faith and ritual to the social and political history of this influential region.

Offerings to the Black Christ of Esqipulas

Author : Carlos A. Fernández
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offerings to the Black Christ of Esqipulas written by Carlos A. Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Offerings to the Black Christ of Esquipulas

Author : Carlos A. Fernández
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Offerings to the Black Christ of Esquipulas written by Carlos A. Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes

Author : Joel W. Palka
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826354750
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes written by Joel W. Palka and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrimage to ritually significant places is a part of daily life in the Maya world. These journeys involve important social and practical concerns, such as the maintenance of food sources and world order. Frequent pilgrimages to ceremonial hills to pay offerings to spiritual forces for good harvests, for instance, are just as necessary for farming as planting fields. Why has Maya pilgrimage to ritual landscapes prevailed from the distant past and why are journeys to ritual landscapes important in Maya religion? How can archaeologists recognize Maya pilgrimage, and how does it compare to similar behavior at ritual landscapes around the world? The author addresses these questions and others through cross-cultural comparisons, archaeological data, and ethnographic insights.

The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0241250552
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is the ultimate guide to traveling the region and getting the most value for every dollar, colón, quetzal, or lempira. Detailed color maps and in-depth coverage of how to get around go hand-in-hand with inspirational itineraries and authoritative accounts of every attraction. This guidebook covers all the Central American countries and features first-hand reviews of affordable accommodation, cheap places to eat, laid-back bars, and thrilling outdoor adventures. The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is packed with epic road trips, adventure activities, ancient ruins, beach hideaways, wildlife watching, atmospheric colonial cities, and all the best festivals. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget.

The Rough Guide to Central America On a Budget

Author :
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1409348393
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Central America On a Budget written by and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new full-colour Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is the ultimate guide to travelling the region and getting the most value for every dollar, colón, quetzal or lempira. Detailed colour maps and in depth coverage of how to get around go hand in hand with inspirational itineraries and authoritative accounts of every attraction. It covers all the Central American countries and features first-hand reviews of affordable accommodation, cheap places to eat, laidback bars and thrilling outdoor adventures. The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is packed with epic road trips, adventure activities, ancient ruins, beach hideaways, wildlife watching, atmospheric colonial cities and all the best festivals. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget. Now available in ePub format.

ÁSanto!

Author : Edwin David Aponte
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331423
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book ÁSanto! written by Edwin David Aponte and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Latino/a spiritualities today--Protestant, Catholic, Pentecostal, and non-Christian and the challenges they bring to Christian theology and ministry. Given the context of increasing religious pluralism and a burgeoning interest in religions, religiosity, and spirituality within the United States and the knowledge that by the mid-twenty-first century an estimated 100 million Americans will claim Latin origin, an understanding of the varieties of Latino/a spirituality becomes essential. This book focuses on the ways in which Latinos and Latinas participate in the pursuit and practice of the spiritual or "holy" santo as part of their lived religion. In seven chapters, Aponte explores various understandings of santo and its participation in daily life, rites of passage, and worship.

Pilgrimage [2 volumes]

Author : Linda Kay Davidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075435
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage [2 volumes] written by Linda Kay Davidson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-17 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalistic meccas, shrines to popular culture, and sacred traditions for the world's religions from Animism to Zoroastrianism are all examined in two accessible and comprehensive volumes. Pilgrimage is a comprehensive compendium of the basic facts on Pilgrimage from ancient times to the 21st century. Illustrated with maps and photographs that enrich the reader's journey, this authoritative volume explores sites, people, activities, rites, terminology, and other matters related to pilgrimage such as economics, tourism, and disease. Encompassing all major and minor world religions, from ancient cults to modern faiths, this work covers both religious and secular pilgrimage sites. Compiled by experts who have authored numerous books on pilgrimage and are pilgrims in their own right, the entries will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers.

The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez

Author : Ellen McCracken
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826347622
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez written by Ellen McCracken and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association As a teenager, Manuel Chávez (1910-1996) left his native New Mexico for over a decade of study at the St. Francis Seraphic Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and other midwestern institutions. Included in his curriculum was an introduction to literature and the arts that piqued an interest that would follow him the remainder of his life. Upon returning to New Mexico, he was ordained Fray Angélico Chávez and would become one of New Mexico's most important twentieth-century writers. In The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez, Ellen McCracken provides a literary biography that includes a deep look into the intellectual and cultural contributions of this Renaissance man. McCracken moves chronologically through a substantial body of work that includes fiction, poetry, plays, essays, spiritual tracts, sermons, historical writing, translation, painting, church renovation, and journalism. From the prolific creativity of the years of his first assignment in Peña Blanca to the decades he spent researching Hispano genealogy in New Mexico, McCracken traces Chávez's complex and changing identity as an ethnic American and religious subject who was also an historian, artist, creative writer, and preservationist. The year 2010 will mark the centenary of Fray Angélico Chávez's birth, and this volume will serve as a fitting tribute.

Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Author : Brent E. Metz
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082633881X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala written by Brent E. Metz and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.

Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185198
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The K’iche’ Maya creation story preserved in the sixteenth-century manuscript Popol Vuh describes the origin of the world and its people in a setting long assumed to be the Guatemalan central highlands. Now a scholar with a deep knowledge of Maya history shows that all of these mythological events occurred at specific locations and that this landscape was the template for the Maya worldview. Examining the primary Maya deities, Karen Bassie-Sweet links geographic features to gods and beliefs. She reconstructs key elements of the Popol Vuh to argue that the three volcanoes around Lake Atitlan were the three thunderbolt gods and that the lake was the center of the world. She also shows that the Maya view of the creation of humans is centered on corn and examines core beliefs about the corn cycle to propose that the creation myth was established much earlier in Maya history than previously supposed. Generously illustrated, Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities is a detailed ethnohistorical analysis of Maya religion, cosmology, and ritual practice that convincingly links mythology to the land. A comprehensive treatment of Maya religion, it provides an essential resource for scholars and will fascinate any reader captivated by these ancient beliefs.

La Llorona's Children

Author : Luis D. León
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935381
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book La Llorona's Children written by Luis D. León and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. León proposes what he calls a borderlands reading of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a transgressive, border-crossing goddess in her own right, a mestiza deity who displaces Jesus and God for believers on both sides of the border. His energetic discussion of curanderismo shows how this indigenous religious practice links cognition and sensation in a fresh and powerful technology of the body—one where sensual, erotic, and sexualized ways of knowing emphasize personal and communal healing. La Llorona’s Children ends with a fascinating study of the rich and complex world of Chicano/a Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, a tradition that León maintains allows Chicano men to reimagine their bodies into a unified social body through ritual performance. Throughout the narrative, the connections among sacred spaces, saints, healers, writers, ideas, and movements are woven with skill, inspiration, and insight.

Latino/a Literature in the Classroom

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933974
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Latino/a Literature in the Classroom written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel, short story, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial, comic book, children and young adult literature, film, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and tools to help teachers design courses that pay attention to: Issues of form across a range of storytelling media Issues of content such as theme and character Issues of historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions Issues of institutional classroom settings The volume innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum by offering new possibilities for pedagogical practice.

New Latina Narrative

Author : Ellen Marie McCracken
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816519415
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book New Latina Narrative written by Ellen Marie McCracken and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades of the twentieth century, U.S. Latina writers have made a profound impact on American letters with fiction in both mainstream and regional venues. Following on the heels of this vibrant and growing body of work, New Latina Narrative offers the first in-depth synthesis and literary analysis of this transethnic genre. Focusing on the dynamic writing published in the 1980s and 1990s by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Domincan American women, New Latina Narrative illustrates how these writers have redefined the concepts of multiculturalism and diversity in American society. As participants in both mainstream and grassroots forms of multiculturalism, these new Latina narrativists have created a feminine space within postmodern ethnicity, disrupting the idealistic veneer of diversity with which publishers often market this fiction. In this groundbreaking study, author Ellen McCracken opens the conventional boundaries of Latino/a literary criticism, incorporating elements of cultural studies theory and contemporary feminism. Emphasizing the diversity within new Latina narrative, McCracken discusses the works of more than two dozen writers, including Julia Alvarez, Denise Ch‡vez, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina Garcia, Graciela Lim—n, Demetria Mart’nez, Pat Mora, Cherr’e Moraga, Mary Helen Ponce, and Helena Mar’a Viramontes. She stresses such themes as the resignification of master narrative, the autobiographical self and collective identity, popular religiosity, subculture and transgression, and narrative harmony and dissonance. New Latina Narrative provides readers an enriched basis for reconceiving the overall Latino/a literary field and its relation to other contemporary literary and cultural trends. McCracken's original approach extends the Latina literary canonÑboth the works to be studied and the issues to be examinedÑresulting in a valuable work for all readers of women's studies, contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, communications, and sociology.

A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

Author : Anne Cary Morris Maudslay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America written by Anne Cary Morris Maudslay and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Earth as it is in Heaven

Author : Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842025850
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book On Earth as it is in Heaven written by Virginia Garrard-Burnett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects nine previously published essays that consider the entire region and so provide a more comparative view of the range of religious experience than studies that focus on a particular country. They also range widely across religion, covering not only the dominant Catholicism, but also popular Indian and African religious forms and new elements such as Protestantism and Mormonism. The collection is suitable for a course. It is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

Author : Brent E. Metz
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646422627
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? written by Brent E. Metz and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Brent E. Metz explores the complicated issue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over the past two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya. Epigraphers agree that the language of elite writers in Classic Maya civilization was Proto-Ch’olan, the precursor of the Maya languages Ch’orti’, Ch’olti’, Ch’ol, and Chontal. When the Spanish invaded in the early 1500s, the eastern half of this area was dominated by people speaking various dialects of Ch’olti’ and closely related Apay (Ch’orti’), but by the end of the colonial period (1524–1821) only a few pockets of Ch’orti’ speakers remained. From 2003 to 2018 Metz partnered with Indigenous leaders to conduct a historical and ethnographic survey of Ch’orti’ Maya identity in what was once the eastern side of the Classic period lowland Maya region and colonial period Ch’orti’-speaking region of eastern Guatemala, western Honduras, and northwestern El Salvador. Today only 15,000 Ch’orti’ speakers remain, concentrated in two municipalities in eastern Guatemala, but since the 1990s nearly 100,000 impoverished farmers have identified as Ch’orti’ in thirteen Guatemalan and Honduran municipalities, with signs of Indigenous revitalization in several Salvadoran municipalities as well. Indigenous movements have raised the ethnic consciousness of many non-Ch’orti’-speaking semi-subsistence farmers, or campesinos. The region’s inhabitants employ diverse measures to assess identity, referencing language, history, traditions, rurality, “blood,” lineage, discrimination, and more. Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? approaches Indigenous identity as being grounded in historical processes, contemporary politics, and distinctive senses of place. The book is an engaged, activist ethnography not on but, rather, in collaboration with a marginalized population that will be of interest to scholars of the eastern lowland Maya region, indigeneity generally, and ethnographic experimentation.