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		<title>Thomas Hart.  The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hart.  The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Pp 290.  $45.00 hardcover.  Kristina Downs Indiana University The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya by Thomas Hart profiles the persistence of traditional Mayan religion in contemporary society.  Hart, who has lived and worked in Guatemala since 1993, conducted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=folkloreforum.net&amp;blog=2501981&amp;post=988&amp;subd=folkloreforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Pieper, Guatemala’s Masks and Drama.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Pieper. Guatemala’s Masks and Drama. Torrance, Calif: Pieper and Associates, 2006. pp284. $65.00 hard cover, $45.00 paper. Mary Mesteller Indiana University Guatemala’s Masks and Drama by Jim Pieper aims to give an analysis of masks as an object as well as to discuss their role in Guatemalan culture, particularly in public dance performances, rituals, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=folkloreforum.net&amp;blog=2501981&amp;post=705&amp;subd=folkloreforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Katherine Borland. Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicaragua has experienced an incredibly difficult century of supposed independence, a century wherein a variety of internal and external forces to Nicaragua sought and seeks to define and redefine the economic, political, social, and cultural landscape, a situation not unfamiliar to Latin America as a whole.  Katherine Borland, in Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival, has crafted an illuminating and thoughtful ethnographic-historical analysis of Nicaraguan festival as one arena wherein this struggle for power is played out. An Associate Professor of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University at Newark, Borland illustrates Nicaraguan festival as a complex locus for the construction, assertion, and negotiation of individual, local, and national identities.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=folkloreforum.net&amp;blog=2501981&amp;post=21&amp;subd=folkloreforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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