Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlan by Nathaniel Tarn, Martin Prechtel

Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlan

Nathaniel Tarn, Martin Prechtel

397 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

reflective medium-paced

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Based on a 30 year span of fieldwork in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, Scandals is a multi-voiced epic of a sacred crime and its tangled mythic, religious and political ramifications. The Maximon, a wooden idol venerated since pre-Columbian...

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