Entanglements of the Maya Universe
Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango
Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment; 11;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Berghahn Books
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781836950264
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Cosmology or cosmological ideas are often sought to solve problems in our daily lives. This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology through an ethnographic description of the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K?iche? Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala. It addresses the question of why they turn to cosmology in an everyday context and how it is powerful and efficient for them. It also shows the way Indigenous cosmological ideas are echoed by contemporary philosophical and scientific conceptions.
?This book constitutes an outstanding anthropological work delving on the current cosmo-sociopolitical configurations by K?iche? Maya. It is full of keen observations ... an effervescent account of current local political and cultural nonlinear transformations.? ? Alessandro Questa Rebolledo, Universidad Iberoamericana
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on K?iche? Ortography and Transliterations
Maps
Introduction: Mesoamerican Cosmologies and Social Theory
Chapter 1. ?The Law of Us, the Indigenous?
Chapter 2. Seeing with Eyes of Fire: A Ritual Séance among a K?iche? Family
Chapter 3. A Future That Already Happened: Time Magic in K?iche? Rituals
Chapter 4. ?If You See Me in Dreams, I Can Harm You?: On Witchcraft
Chapter 5. The Struggle for the Earth: The Cosmology of Activism and Resistance
Chapter 6. Altars of History: War, Rituals and Social Memory
Conclusion: What Is Cosmology?
Appendix: Some K?iche? Cosmological Concepts
Glossary
References
Index
