Cook Garrett Offit Thomas (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 200 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. Focusing on the primary participants in the annual festival in the K'iche' Maya village of Santiago Momostenango, the authors show how older religious traditionalists and the new generation of "cultural activist" religious practitioners interact within a single local community, and how their competing agendas for adapting Maya religiosity to a new and continually changing political economy are perpetuating and changing Maya religious traditions.".…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 200 pp. some pen markings pp 95-109 and highlighting pp 156-158 otherwise very good in original blue cloth gilt and dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.