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Maya, Via Dolorosa (The Sorrowful Way)
written by Claudine Viallon, 1948- and Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990; directed by Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990 and Claudine Viallon, 1948-, in Maya (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1978), 10 mins
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of town...
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written by Claudine Viallon, 1948- and Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990; directed by Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990 and Claudine Viallon, 1948-, in Maya (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1978), 10 mins
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Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms. Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of...
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms. Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms. although some elements from this kind of procession have been borrowed by the Maya villagers, the contrast between the Spanish formality of this urban Via Dolorosa and the syncretic, lively, Indian festivities such as those in Tajimoltik could not be more striking.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Claudine Viallon, 1948-, Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990, Don Toffaletto
Author / Creator
Claudine Viallon, 1948-, Georges Payrastre, fl. 1990
Date Published / Released
1978
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Maya
Speaker / Narrator
Don Toffaletto
Topic / Theme
Guatemalan, Maya, Religious rites and ceremonies, Holy Week, Catholicism, Ethnography, Guatemalans, Mayan
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