... 1969–70 field study of the municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiché Department. The book’s dramatic title is ... these factors were not to be found in San Antonio Ilotenango.The rebellion that Ricardo Falla does describe was against traditional beliefs and K’iche’ Maya elders, not the national power structure. Town traditions revolved around Maya-Catholic rituals, gerontocracy, and subsistence maize agriculture. As the San Antonio population grew rapidly in the early twentieth century, ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Society in Latin America
2003 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review