Indigenous Bodies; Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ 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 Guatemala—costumbre; 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 Spirituality—with 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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I bought this because Lyle Adair is my gr-gr- grandfather ...By M C BI bought this because Lyle Adair is my gr-gr- grandfather. And if you find your Gr-Gr-Grandfather's civil war diary has been published; you HAVE to get it.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Written African-American POW inWBTSBy BookWormSad; but true book1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Diary of the Life of a Union Prisoner Well Edited adding Excellent DetailBy Daniel HurleySgt. Adair was a union soldier guarding a union rail line and became a very transient prisoner; transferred from one prison camp to another eventually ending up in Andersonville. His capture was made worse by the break down of the prisoner exchange that ceased to exist due to Davis' refusal to exchange black soldiers and Grant's philosophy to cut off recycling prisoners to the manpower south. Adair describes the various moves; rumors of exchange that torture the prisoners; the questioning of their government's seemingly abandoning them; descriptions of the various prisons and his own faith in serving regardless of his consequences. Adair was fortunate enough to reach Andersonville while the largest population; over 35;000; were moved in response to Sherman's advance and in particularly Wilson's raid. Although over crowding was a far less burden; the conditions at Andersonville were still not good with a small stream that is contaminated by human waste. All the moving around during the latter part of the war exemplifies how desperate the south was to move prisoners away from converging armies as Adair is moved several times more. The author;Glenn Robins is an associate professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University that is just down the road from Andersonville and he adds additional detail about the situation during periods of Adair's captivity. Thus you have a very descriptive and revealing diary with Robins framing what is going on globally during the periods of Adair's time as a prisoner. I was very fortunate this month to have a tour of Andersonville; still in a very remote location; by Robins as part of the Pamplin Park Atlanta Campaign tour. He provided an excellent description of the grounds that appropriately finished in the Andersonville cemetery where over 11;000 union soldiers are buried;. Every Civil War historian needs to visit Andersonville.
