Description: This classic study of cultural continuity and change in an indigenous Guatemalan community is now updated to reveal how the forces of globalization are shredding the very fabric of communal and religious life.
Brief description: ROBERT S. CARLSEN recently retired from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, where he taught for twenty years, and is now an independent researcher. He conducted twenty-five years of field research in Atitlán, where he learned Tz'utujil, was accepted in a local cofradía (Mayan/Catholic religious society), and was a firsthand witness to la violencia.