Título: Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds
Autor: C. James MacKenzie
Sinopse: Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the Kiche Maya community of San Andrés 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. Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among four coexisting religious communities within Highland Maya villages in contemporary Guatemalacostumbre, traditionalist religion with a shamanic substrate; Enthusiastic Christianity, versions of Charismaticism and Pentecostalism; an inculturated and Mayanized version of Catholicism; and a purified and antisyncretic Maya Spiritualitywith attention to the modern and nonmodern worldviews that sustain them. He introduces a sophisticated set of theories to interpret both traditional religion and its relationship to other contemporary religious options, analyzing the relation among these various worldviews in terms of the indigenization of modernity and the various ways modernity can be apprehended as an intellectual project or an embodied experience. Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds investigates the way an increasingly plural religious landscape intersects with ethnic and other identities. It will be of interest to Mesoamerican and Mayan ethnographers, as well as students and scholars of cultural anthropology, indigenous cultures, globalization, and religion.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds”, de C. James MacKenzie, publicado pela editora University Press of Colorado, em 2016 e com 386 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: University Press of Colorado
Páginas: 386
Ano: 2016
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 160732394X
ISBN13: 9781607323945
