"Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of in...

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1. Verfasser:	Garcia, Edgar 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Critical antiquities
Schlagworte:	Popol vuh Pandemie COVID-19 Quiché mythology Emergencies / Philosophy Mythologie quiché Situations d'urgence / Philosophie HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Zusammenfassung:	"Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh-while implicated in deep social crisis-nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation"--
Beschreibung:	121 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:	9780226818597 9780226818603