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Mayan Catholicism in Chichicastenango |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Merlinda Fournier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 3,910 Words, 23,648 Characters |
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Despite a history of enforced political and economic submission to the Spanish, the Guatemalan Indian descendants of the Maya have clung with remarkable tenacity to their religious ethics and cultural integrity. Some three hundred ethnic groups, speaking variations of at least seventeen distinct Mayan languages, persist to this day. From the ancient pyramid-temples of Tikal to the modern folk Catholicism of Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, their long pilgrimage is visible. Under successive military regimes in this century (civilian rule was restored in Guatemala only in January 1986), these highlanders were again under siege.
The backbone of this contemporary confrontation is a land-tenure system through which the ladinos (westernized Guatemalans) still dominate the indigenous peoples...
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...n town may be drunk for almost a week--alcoholism has become a general social problem.
Although tourism is one of Guatemala's chief sources of foreign currency, it acts even more as a force to help preserve the nation's cultural heritage. As witnessed above, these traditions are not corrupted by tourists, because they are--in an inviting way--asked to be respectful to these traditions.
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