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The road from el PalmarBook 2018 • Saler, Benson
Quiché Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This doctoral dissertation focused on a Quiché community originally from the highland town of Momostenango that resettled in the Pacific lowland town of El Palmar argues that it exhibits aspects of both theoretical types of peasant community: the clo...Nagual, witch, and sorcerer in a Quiché villagearticle 1964 • Saler, Benson
Quiché Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This article examines the place in the Quiché worldview of the nagual, which has been understood by various ethnographers as a companion or guardian spirit, destiny animal, or transforming witch. The author distinguishes between the sorcerer and the ...The departure of the Dueñoarticle 1965 • Saler, Benson
Quiché Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This article examines the legend of Juan Noj, a manifestation of the "Earth Essence" and dueño (master, owner) of the volcano Santa María, who travels the countryside on horseback in the guise of a wealthy Ladino (mestizo, hispanicized) man or boy. A...