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Cakchikel Indians. --- Quiché Indians. --- Guatemala --- Antiquities. --- History

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Cakchikel Indians. --- Quiché Indians. --- Cakchiquel (Indiens) --- Quiché (Indiens) --- Guatemala --- Antiquities. --- History --- Antiquités --- Histoire

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Cakchikel language - Writing --- Picture-writing, Indian --- Cakchikel language - History --- Cakchikel Indians - Social conditions --- Symbolism in communication --- Cakchikel language --- Cakchikel Indians --- Cakchiquel (langue) --- Écriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique. --- Cakchiquel (Indiens) --- Ecriture. --- Conditions sociales.

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"The Kaqchikel Maya, who live in the highlands of central Guatemala, experience soul as part of a continuum of bodily states. This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body. By examining the lived-meanings of midwifery, soul therapy, and community dance in the town of San Juan Comalapa, the book identifies the body as the primary vehicle for spiritual grounding in daily life. Hinojosa invites readers to understand how specialists in these activities articulate their knowledge of the spirit through their understanding of blood, and he encourages readers to glimpse the hidden life of the body and how bodily processes guide local understandings of spirit at the personal and group level. This work further illuminates the agentive role of the body in Maya spiritual experience and enriches the current discussions of Maya spiritual revitalization"--

Cakchikel Indians --- Human body --- Mind and body --- Social life and customs. --- Religion. --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects. --- Comalapa (Guatemala)

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Selling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango. Like businesspeople anywhere, Maya artisans analyze the desires and needs of their customers and shape their products to meet the demands of the market. But how has adapting to the global marketplace reciprocally shaped the identity and cultural practices of the Maya peoples? Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Focusing on Kaqchikel Mayas who commute to Antigua to sell their goods, he explores three significant issues: how the tourist marketplace conflates global and local distinctions. how the marketplace becomes a border zone where national and international, developed and underdeveloped, and indigenous and non-indigenous come together. how marketing to tourists changes social roles, gender relationships, and ethnic identity in the vendors' home communities. Little's wide-ranging research challenges our current understanding of tourism's negative impact on indigenous communities. He demonstrates that the Maya are maintaining a specific, community-based sense of Maya identity, even as they commodify their culture for tourist consumption in the world market.

Cakchikel Indians --- Maya business enterprises --- Culture and tourism --- Tourists --- Antigua Region (Guatemala) --- Commerce --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Attitudes --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.