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IBERO-AMERICANA PRAGENSIA, Vol 49 No 1 (2021), 53–68
Maya Crosses Dressed, Fed, Alive. A Case Study on Maya Animism
Jan Kapusta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24647063.2024.3
published online: 22. 07. 2024
abstract
Maya crosses have always inspired a sense of wonder in the modern observer, because they have been considered animate persons with whom people establish and maintain intersubjective relationships and whom they cherish and nurture. In this study, drawing on my ethnography of “dressing the cross”, an Easter ceremony, I suggest that what separates Maya traditionalism from globalizing modern Maya Spirituality is a particular form of “hierarchical animism”.
keywords: cross; popular religiosity; spirituality; animism; ethnography; the Maya; Guatemala
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