Maya Apocalypse
Seventeen Years with the Women of a Yucatan Village
Published on 22. September 2001
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-253-33908-9 (ISBN)
Description
Maya Apocalypse is the record of a fieldwork experience which, as happens so often, ended up quite differently from the way it was originally planned. Felicitas Goodman was conducting in a research project about speaking in tongues (glossolalia). After recording this non-ordinary speech behaviour among English and Spanish speaking members of Pentecostal congregations, she sought to discover whether speaking a so-called "exotic," i.e. non-Indo-European language would in some way change certain basic linguistic patterns. A Mexican Apostolic Pentecostal minister kindly recommended the preacher in a Maya village in Yucatan (Mexico). The congregation she came to know in 1969 subsequently experienced a "crisis cult" in response to a prediction of the end of the world, which was to take place on September 1, 1970. Goodman subsequently spent a part of every year until 1986 with the women of the congregation. Maya Apocalypse is a record of that fieldwork, which eventually covered not only the events in the temple, both ordinary and extraordinary, but also the lives of the women who acted as informants, especially Dona Eus, to whom this work is affectionately dedicated.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33908-9 (9780253339089)
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Content
Contents; Book 1; Yucatan - Geography and Habitat; History of the Yucatan; Yucatan Today; The Pentecostal Movement; Pentecostalism in the Yucatan; The Village of Utzpak; The Apostolic Congregation; Book 2 - 1969; Arrival in the Yucatan; The Village - Settling In; Enter Hermana Barrera; Barrera Goes to Work; More from the Home Front; Making a Joyful Noise; Visiting; More Services; More Visiting; Interval in Merida; Back in Utpak; The Baptism on the Seashore; The Last Week; Discussion; Book 3 - 1970; Return to Yucatan; Changes in the Temple; Barrera's Ambitions and the Second Coming; A Sunday Service; A Trip to Merida; Visit to Temax; Showing of the Film; Sunday Services with a Difference; The Trip to Tibolom; Back Home Again; The Trip to Chetumal and the Chetumal Cooperative Church Compound; Home Again; Driving toward a Peak; Interlude; Discussion; Book 4 - 1971 to 1975; January Visit in Utzpak; Keeping in Touch; Return to Yucatan; The Congregation; At Eus's Place; At Reina's Place; The Wedding in Las Choapas, Tabasco; Developments in the Congregation until July 1972; Enter the William Branham Mission; The Schism of Don Victor; Return to Utzpak, July 1972; Saturday Evening's Service, 1 July 1972; Illness of Dona Filipa; Making the Rounds; A Trip to Merida; A Private Service; Family Matters; Stories of Witchcraft; A Women's Quarrel; The Congregation from August 1972 until the Summer of 1973; A New Minister in Utzpak; A Baptism in Merida; Back in Utzpak; First Encounter with Don Victor; June 1974; The Situation in Merida; Reaction from Mexico City; The View from Utzpak; Isauro's Version; An Excursion to Izamal; Weekday Interludes; Once More Barrera; Finally, Don Victor; The Congregation from the Summer of 1974 until July 1975; Back in Utzpak; The Death of Mam Dosa; Some News of the Congregation; The Drought; The Arrival of Wilma; A Service in Don Eduardo's House; Visit to the Rancho San Jorge; An Excursion to Chetumal; The Home Turf; Another Visit by Don Victor; Some Diary Entries - 1975; Discussion; Book 5; Arrival; The Death of Don Eduardo; Visit at Reina's House; Keeping Warm; Wilma's Place; Visit to the Doctor; Fragmentation of the Congregation; And Now They Dance; Chetumal Once More; Utzpak Once More; Book 6; Various Services but None for Easter; Lecture at the University of Yucatan; Interval 1977 - A Boy's Story; Book 7; Arrival, 1978; Reina's Cottage Industry; Temax - The Doctor and Dona Andrea; Excursion to Chetumal; Wilma's Visit; The Services; Visit to Valuch and Other Final Images; Book 8; Arrival and Settling In; Family Gossip; Evening Services and the New Minister; Reina and the Cottage Industry; Life with Eus Book 9 - Fieldwork - August 26-September 7, 1983 Arrival and a Revival Meeting; Life with Eus; Services; Wilma's Children; Demonic Possession; Book 10 - Fieldwork - January 2-15, 1985; Arrival and at Home with Eus; Invitation to the Demons; Ho. Miguel Opens the Door; Wilma the Exorcist; The Demonic Possession; The Door Closes; Book 11 - December 4-15, 1986; Arrival and at Home With Eus; Correspondence - March 1985 - October 1986; Correspondence - March 1987 - November 1988