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Balancing the World: Contemporary Maya ajq’ijab in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- What is an ajq’ij?
Creating a project
The ajq’ijab as presented by researchers
Guatemalan research
Misrepresentation
Insiders from outside
What is an ajq’ij?
- Fieldwork in Guatemala
Guatemala and the Maya
Languages
A violent history
Christianity and Maya spirituality
Collecting data
Hiring an assistant
Manuel’s group
Conducting interviews
The interviewees
Presenting data
Transcription, sorting and translation
Fieldwork in Guatemala
- Common terms
Maya spirituality
God and the sacred
Other names for the ajq’ijab
Ajq’ij meaning ‘natural talent’
Visitors
Common terms
- The intermediary
Important concepts
Spiritual energies: nahuales
Does that mean there are 20 nahuales?
Their date of birth ?
A part of the universe - holism and immanence
Dualism, balance and a love of nature
Thankfulness
Ancestors
Other concepts
Payment
Voluntary offerings
Fixed prices
Christianity and Maya spirituality
Christianity as a bad influence
One has to choose one or the other
The intermediary
- Helping visitors
How some people work as ajq’ijab
Friends and strangers
Why people visit
Sickness and other problems
Giving thanks and getting blessings
Rites of passage
Finding a solution
Divination
Guidance and counselling
Interpreting signs
Solving problems spiritually
Receiving crosses
Talking to spirits
Helping visitors
- Gifts and burdens
Non-visitor work - life and responsibilities
Keeping days, keeping tradition
Gifts for the world
Spiritual spouses
Problems of practise
Bearing the burden
Hostility and vandalism
Misinterpretation and commercialisation
Gifts and burdens
- The right person for the job
Requirements
The right nahual and number
Maya culture and ethnicity
Speaking a Mayan language
Being chosen
Becoming an ajq’ij without being chosen
Signs
Illness
Problems and bad luck
Other signs
Inheritance
The right person for the job
- Receiving
Receiving
- Comparative contexts
The context of similar research
My group of ajq’ijab compared to Hart’s group of Maya Priests
The context of categories within the study of religion
Levels of analysis
Religious virtuosos and the promise of salvation
The temporal context
Jaloj-K’exoj as a continuous concept
The context of one or several religious systems
Bricolage, belt and braces
Maya converts and their views on other religions
The context of tourism in contemporary Guatemala
Comparative contexts
- Balancing the world
Why does an ajq’ij do her or his work?
How does an ajq’ij do her or his work?
Why does one become an ajq’ij?
How does one become an ajq’ij?
Balancing the world
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