Emergency - Edgar Garcia

Emergency

Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2022
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-81859-7 (ISBN)
22,45 inkl. MwSt
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 the book 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.
 

Edgar Garcia is the Neubauer Family Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.  

Birds
Wealth
Caves
Television
Demons
Migrations
Love
The Sun
Mormons
Afterword
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Antiquities
Zusatzinfo 1 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 141 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 0-226-81859-4 / 0226818594
ISBN-13 978-0-226-81859-7 / 9780226818597
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