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Scandals in the house of birds : shamans and priests on Lake Atitlán / Nathaniel Tarn with Martín Prechtel.
Penn Museum Library F1465.2.T9 T37 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarn, Nathaniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tzutuhil sculpture--Guatemala--Santiago Atitlán.
- Tzutuhil sculpture.
- Tzutuhil Indians--Religion.
- Tzutuhil Indians.
- Tzutuhil Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Art thefts--Guatemala--Santiago Atitlán.
- Art thefts.
- Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala)--Religious life and customs.
- Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala).
- Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala)--Social life and customs.
- Guatemala--Santiago Atitlán.
- Physical Description:
- x, 397 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marsilio Publishers, [1997]
- Summary:
- Based on a 30 year span of fieldwork in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, Scandals is a multi-voiced epic of a sacred crime and its tangled mythic, religious and political ramifications. The Maximon, a wooden idol venerated since pre-Columbian times is stolen, sent to a European museum, and finally returned decades later, largely thanks to the author's intervention.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-397).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1568860447
- OCLC:
- 38239170
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