Exploring 3 stories of extraordinary human consciousness following field research in and around Lake Atitlán, documenting how the area's Mayan descendants have maintained connection to tradition through syncretism and dreamwork in the face of decades of colonization, war, and genocide.
Show Notes:
Machine Guns and Mountain Spirits: The cultural effects of state repression among the Q'eqchi' of Guatemala (Richard Wilson, Critique of Anthropology, 1991)
The Role of Dreams and Visionary Narratives in Mayan Cultural Survival (Barbara Tedlock, Ethos, 1992)
Translating the Maya Popol Wuj (Vincent Stanzione, Harvard Review of Latin America, 2021)
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