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Maya Apocalypse: Seventeen Years with the Women of a Yucatan Village
Maya Apocalypse Seventeen Years with the Women of a Yucatan Village Author:Felicitas D. Goodman Noted anthropologist Felicitas D. Goodman spent a part of every year from 1969 to 1986 with the women of a Yucatan Pentecostal congregation, studying their language and behavior--especially glossolalia (speaking in tongues) and their experience of a "crisis cult" in response to a prediction that the world would end on September 1, 1970. MAYA APO... more »CALYPSE is a record of Goodman's fieldwork, revealing both the ordinary and extraordinary in the lives of these remarkable women.« less