Garrett W. Cook

Renewing the Maya World

Expressive Culture in a Highland Town

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Produktbeschreibung

Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between contemporary expressive culture and the myths, rituals, and iconography of the Classic and Postclassic Maya. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the 1970s and renewed in the 1990s, Cook describes the expressive culture tradition performed in and by the cofradías and their dance teams. He listens as dancers and cofrades explain the meaning of service and of the major ritual symbols in the cults of the saints and Jesucristo. Comparing these symbols to iconographic evidence from Palenque and myths from the Popol Vuh, Cook persuasively argues that the expressive culture of Momostenango enacts major Maya creation myths-the transformative sunrise, the representation of the year as the life cycle of anthropomorphized nature, and the erection of an axis mundi. This research documents specific patterns of continuity and discontinuity in the communal expression of Maya religious and cosmogonic themes. Along with other recent research, it demonstrates the survival of a basic Maya pattern-the world-creating vegetative renewal cycle-in the highland Maya cults of the saints and Jesucristo.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780292712256
• ISBN-10: 0292712251
• Artikelnr.: 22295760

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Narratives
2. Preface
3. 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
4. Part 1: The Institutional Context
5. Chapter 2: Religious Sodalities of Momostenango: The Communal Cult
Institutions
* Saints and Sodalities
* The Sodalities and Ritual Complexes
* The Cofradías
* The Dance Teams
* Serving Jesucristo and the Saints
6. Chapter 3: Traveling Saints
* Niño San Antonio
* Patrón Santiago
* Replication in Momostecan Cult Institutions
* Maya Themes in the Cult of the Saints
7. Part 2: The Ritual Symbols and Their Meanings
8. Chapter 4: Cosmogonic Tree Raisings and Sunrises
* World Trees and Momostecan Cosmogony
* The Conquest and the Spanish Sunrise
9. Chapter 5: Secrets and Ordeals of Holy Week
* Costumbrista Holy Week
* San Simón
* Corpus and Santa Cruz
* Serpentine Flowers from the Coast
* The Tzulab
* The Flowering Cross and Quichean Tradition
10. 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
11. Notes
12. Glossary
13. Bibliography
14. Index