Author: Jorge Luján MuñozPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 540
Book Description
Relaciones geográficas e históricas del siglo XVIII del Reino de Guatemala: Relaciones geográficas e históricas de la década de 1740
Author: Jorge Luján MuñozPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 540
Book Description
Relaciones geográficas e históricas del siglo XVIII del Reino de Guatemala
Author: Jorge Lujan MuñozThe Black Christ of Esquipulas
Author: Douglass Sullivan-GonzalezPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803268432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New Mexico to Panama. Beyond being a site of popular devotion, however, the Black Christ of Esquipulas was also the scene of important debates about citizenship and identity in the Guatemalan nation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In The Black Christ of Esquipulas, Douglass Sullivan-González explores the multifaceted appeal of this famous shrine, its mysterious changes in color over the centuries, and its deeper significance in the spiritual and political lives of Guatemalans. Reconstructed from letters buried within the restricted Catholic Church archive in Guatemala City, the debates surrounding the shrine reflect the shifting categories of race and ethnicity throughout the course of the country’s political trajectory. This “biography” of the Black Christ of Esquipulas serves as an alternative history of Guatemala and sheds light on some of the most salient themes in Guatemala’s social and political history: state formation, interethnic dynamics, and church-state tensions. Sullivan-González’s study provides a holistic understanding of the relevance of faith and ritual to the social and political history of this influential region.
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
Author: Sophie BrockmannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108369332
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She argues that new intellectual connections and novel ways of understanding landscapes had a transformative impact on political culture, as patriotic reformers sought to improve the region's fortunes by applying scientific and 'useful' knowledge gathered from local and global networks to the land. These reformers established networks that extended into the countryside and far beyond Central America's borders. Tracing these networks and following the bureaucrats, priests, labourers, merchants and scholars within them, Brockmann shows how they made a lasting impact by defining a new place for the natural world in narratives of nation and progress.
Relaciones Geográficas Del Siglo XVI: Guatemala
Author: Cartography and Colonial Society
Author: Alexander M. TaitPublisher:
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Category : Guatemala
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Relaciones Geográficas Del Siglo XVI: Guatemala
Author: René AcuñaPublisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Boletín americanista
Author: Solidaridad de la Sociedad de geografía e historia de Guatemala con el gobierno de la república, en la controversia sostenida con la Gran Bretaña, respecto de Belice
Author: Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de GuatemalaPublisher:
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Category : Belize
Languages : es
Pages : 28
Book Description
Author: