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The Everyday Sacred: A Symbolic Analysis of Contemporary Yucatec Maya Women's Daily Realities.

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Title/Author:	The Everyday Sacred: A Symbolic Analysis of Contemporary Yucatec Maya Women's Daily Realities./
Author:	Sheedy, Crystal A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-03A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22588326
ISBN:	9781085709828

The Everyday Sacred: A Symbolic Analysis of Contemporary Yucatec Maya Women's Daily Realities.
Sheedy, Crystal A.

The Everyday Sacred: A Symbolic Analysis of Contemporary Yucatec Maya Women's Daily Realities. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 298 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

As a collaborative effort between myself and the Maya women with whom I worked, who live in Xocen, this dissertation seeks to illuminate the sacred world of Maya women, as well as dismantle the insidious narrative that younger generations of Mayas are losing their culture. Instrumental to this process is the use of decolonial methods (Lawless 1993) and descriptive theoretical premises (Geertz 1973; Turner 1967, 1969) that allowed me to analyze Maya women's discursive speech, referred to as both chismes and heridos in Spanish, which can be translated as gossip, as well as the speech genre of u t'aan nukuc maak, advice of the elders, in the context of women's everyday routines, where tusbeel, responsibilities, serves as the dominant symbol. From these efforts, I not only reveal the retention of symbolic knowledge amongst current generations of Mayas, but I also demonstrate how Maya women's sacred world encompass their everyday lives.Tusbeel, tasks Maya women perform each day, acts as the vehicle by which women interact with the sacred world. Because of the significance of tusbeel, mothers still stress the importance of teaching their daughters tusbeel, despite the new narrative of libertad, freedom, that circulates throughout the village. Parents introduce a young female child of three months to the sacred world via the heec meek', carrying a child astride the hip, ceremony. Mothers then teach their daughters their tusbeel and intersperse u t'aan nukuc maak, ensuring younger generations are protected from both natural and supernatural harm. Some of the advice found in this speech genre extends back to the time of los antiguos, the ancients. I conclude with the argument that Maya women are one of the forces of resilience that help Maya language and culture survive despite several distinct external processes that promote their loss.

ISBN: 9781085709828Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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Cultural anthropology

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