This paper examines the relationship between oral traditions and K’iche’ representations of history and current social and cultural dilemmas in the Guatemalan highlands. I show that oral tradition includes a great variety of genres with different discourse structures and illocutionary force. I discuss apparent inconsistencies among narratives and show that they embody dissent and anxieties in K’iche’ communities in regard to changes provoked by Guatemala’s violent modernity. In particular, I examine stories of patron saints and “witches” and the different stances vis-à-vis religious conversion that they dramatize after the expansion of Catholic Action and Pentecostal denominations in the 1950s and 1960s. Oral traditions are also prescriptiv...
Das guatemaltekische Volk, nicht nur speziell Indigene, befindet sich in einer Phase des Wandels, im...
The social, economic and cultural life in Guatemala is determined by two different societies. One of...
During the past decade the truth commission has risen to prominence as a key instrument of transiti...
textThis dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Gu...
Unlike the usual ways of studying the Andean oral tradition, such as repositories of popular wisdom,...
This dissertation examines emerging difference in the communicative practices of two distinct but re...
Un estudio etnográfico como éste, de corte humanístico y lingüístico pone en evidencia las relacione...
This dissertation examines a variety of narrative and dramatic discourse in post-war Guatemala. Comb...
As the Pan-Maya movement becomes increasingly important in present day Guatemala, the Popul Wuj, a ...
I have conducted fieldwork in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, an Indian town (pueblo indígena) in the c...
Comme dans de nombreuses sociétés du monde, pour les plus de six millions de locuteurs actue...
The 1990s were a decade of cultural and political change in Guatemala. Negotiations led to a Peace A...
I analyze here the importance of religion in Guatemala during the conflict and post-conflict periods...
The author discusses versions of the Andean oral tradition regarding the Achkay (an anthropophagous ...
This study examines the ways Omar S. Castañeda’s Remembering to Say ‘Mouth’ or ‘Face’ (1993) deconst...
Das guatemaltekische Volk, nicht nur speziell Indigene, befindet sich in einer Phase des Wandels, im...
The social, economic and cultural life in Guatemala is determined by two different societies. One of...
During the past decade the truth commission has risen to prominence as a key instrument of transiti...
textThis dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Gu...
Unlike the usual ways of studying the Andean oral tradition, such as repositories of popular wisdom,...
This dissertation examines emerging difference in the communicative practices of two distinct but re...
Un estudio etnográfico como éste, de corte humanístico y lingüístico pone en evidencia las relacione...
This dissertation examines a variety of narrative and dramatic discourse in post-war Guatemala. Comb...
As the Pan-Maya movement becomes increasingly important in present day Guatemala, the Popul Wuj, a ...
I have conducted fieldwork in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, an Indian town (pueblo indígena) in the c...
Comme dans de nombreuses sociétés du monde, pour les plus de six millions de locuteurs actue...
The 1990s were a decade of cultural and political change in Guatemala. Negotiations led to a Peace A...
I analyze here the importance of religion in Guatemala during the conflict and post-conflict periods...
The author discusses versions of the Andean oral tradition regarding the Achkay (an anthropophagous ...
This study examines the ways Omar S. Castañeda’s Remembering to Say ‘Mouth’ or ‘Face’ (1993) deconst...
Das guatemaltekische Volk, nicht nur speziell Indigene, befindet sich in einer Phase des Wandels, im...
The social, economic and cultural life in Guatemala is determined by two different societies. One of...
During the past decade the truth commission has risen to prominence as a key instrument of transiti...