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Emergency - Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (Hardcover)
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Emergency - Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Antiquities
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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.
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