Description: Emergency : Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis, Paperback by Garcia, Edgar, ISBN 0226818594, ISBN-13 9780226818597, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas th of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world’s creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh—while implicated in deep social crisis—nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation.
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Book Title: Emergency : Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Name: Emergency : Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Disease & Health Issues, Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology / Urban
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5 Oz
Author: Edgar Garcia
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Critical Antiquities Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
