Scandals in the House of Birds

Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlán

• Author(s): Nathaniel Tarn, Martín Prechtel,
• Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
• Pages: 397
• ISBN_10: 1568860447
  ISBN_13: 9781568860442
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Indigenous Art of the Americas , Fiction / General , History / Latin America / Central America , Religion / Comparative Religion , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Folklore & Mythology , Social Science / Indigenous Studies , True Crime / Heists & Robberies ,

Description:... Based on a thirty-year span of fieldwork in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, Scandals in the House of Birds is a multivoiced epic of a sacred crime, and its tangled mythic, religious, and political ramifications. The Maximon, a wooden statue venerated since pre-Columbian times, is stolen from the local villagers, sent to a European museum, and finally returned decades later, largely thanks to the authors' intervention.