Guarded by two jaguars : a Catholic parish divided by language and faith /

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"This ethnography examines the role of language and embodied behaviors in producing a congregational split in a Catholic parish serving Guatemala's Q'eqchi' Maya people. Drawing on a range of methods from linguistic and cultural anthropology, author Eric Hoenes del Pinal examines...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoenes del Pinal, Eric, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Kekchi Indians > Religion.
Catholics > Religious identity > Guatemala > Cobán.
Kekchi Indians > Social life and customs.
Kekchi > Religion.
Kekchi > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Caribbean & Latin American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Catholics > Religious identity.
Guatemala > Cobán.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Catholicism as Heteroglossia
  • 1. Por las calles de Cobán: Place, People, and the Dynamics of Conflict
  • 2. Contested Catholicisms: Social Movements and Catholic Theologies in Parish Life
  • 3. Catequistas y Predicadores: Constructing Religious Authority
  • 4. Están listos para cantar en Q'eqchi'? Ma nekeeraj xninqehinkil sa' Q'eqchi'?: Marking Ritual through Code Choice
  • 5. The Politics of Audibility: Language, Music, and Pious Noise
  • 6. Lo siento en mis manos, lo siento en mis pies: Embodying Piety
  • 7. Bearing the Collective Cross: The Body in Public Piety
  • Conclusion: Leaving, Returning, and the Dialects of Change.

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