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NATHANIEL TARN, MARTÍN PRECHTEL - Scandals in the House of Birds. Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlán

Title: Scandals in the House of Birds. Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlán
Description: Marsilio Pub, 1997. Pp: 397. Based on a 30 year span of fieldwork in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, Scandals is a multi-voiced epic of a sacred crime and its tangled mythic, religious and political ramifications. The Maximon, a wooden idol venerated since pre-Columbian times is stolen, sent to a European museum, and finally returned decades later, largely thanks to the author's intervention. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Price: EUR 8.50 = appr. US$ 9.24 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 890182

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