Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town

Author/Contributor(s):	Cook, Garrett W
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	10/01/2000
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between contemporary expressive culture and the my