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<p>Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between conte

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Author

Garrett W. Cook

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292798243

Category

social science

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, History

Updated

2026-03-25