Emergency : reading the Popol vuh in a time of crisis /

"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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Main Author: Garcia, Edgar, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Series:Critical antiquities.
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