Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas

The Maya are-- spiritually -- the Children of the Maize. The far-reaching effects of the divorce between indigenous land-working Maya and their ability to rely on maize farming and traditional subsistence strategies on the milpa (a type of multi-crop, cooperative growing field) have implications for the continuity of Maya spiritual practice. In recent years, Maya communities have struggled against free trade policies and federal legislation that denies them land rights and productive autonomy. Presently, the younger generations in Chiapas are struggling to re-claim their spiritual beliefs as connected to community ecology.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Cavagnaro, Kellie

• Baktun

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39324

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/39324