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Libros antiguos y modernos

Bunzel, Ruth

Chichicastenango; A Guatemalan Village

1952

78,96 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1952
Lugar de impresión
Locust Valley, New York. J. J. Augustin Publisher
Autor
Bunzel, Ruth
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Central America & West Indies Anthropology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; xxvi, 438 pp, illustrations (one is a floor plan of church), tables, glossary, bibliog. original cloth, spine title lettering, interior is clean and near fine in very good cover, tight and sound copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on the author's research and extensive field work in 1930-32 and brought up-to-date with a detailed foreword by the author, the work describes economic and family life, government, religion, fiestas, rituals in this important city in the western highlands of Quiche of Guatemala, with sections on alcoholism, sorcery, placating idols, initiations, family breakup, betrothal, etc. Extensive appendices include the market, terms of relationships, dances, folklore, etc. A publication of the American Ethnological Society.
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