Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Garcia Edgar
Nine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a…
Specifikacia Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Garcia Edgar
Nine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.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