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Talk · Alabama Men's Conference · 1995The Role of Initiation
72 min
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A conference talk from 1995 on initiation as something a village does, not something a person buys.

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Tz'utujil Maya tradition · grief and praise

Martín Prechtel

American author and teacher from New Mexico who travelled to Guatemala in 1970, moved into a Tz'utujil community by Lake Atitlán, learned the language and studied with a shaman there. He married into the village and raised a family before the civil war drove them to the United States.

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