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Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
On April 13th and 14th, CLAGS hosts a major national conference on the theme Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality, and the Values of Citizenship. The conference is being generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, in conjunction with CLAGS's Rockefeller Residency in the Humanities program.
Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little
Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, has been incorporated into transnational movements of people, commodities, and ideas through tourism, development, and religious evangelism. The Kaqchikel Mayas living there have long looked outward from their community as they embraced, ignored, or criticized these global flows. Contemporary Kaqchikel Mayas have incorporated these global flows into the organization and maintenance of their households, while giving them a local interpretation. Some families have made their homes a place to enact their culture through exhibitions and performances for tourists. Such performances are indicative of the strategies …