Jakaltek people

Jakaltek people

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Jakaltek
population = 47,024 [According to the official 2002 census for Guatemala: cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html |title= XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico |accessdate=2008-05-27 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas |date=2002 ] - 88,000 [Estimates of Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) for 1998 cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=gt |title= Languages of Guatemala |accessdate=2008-05-27 |publisher= |date= ]
region1 = flag|Guatemala
pop1 = 47,024 - 77,000
ref1 = [According to the official 2002 census: cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html |title= XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico |accessdate=2008-05-27 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas |date=2002 Note that the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) mentions a higher number of 77,000 for Guatemala in 1998 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=gt] ]
region2 = Huehuetenango
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region3 = flag|Mexico
pop3 = approx. 11,000
ref3 = lower| [Estimate of the Summer Institute of Linguistics for 1998: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=gt]
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languages = Jakaltek (Poptí), Spanish
religions = Roman Catholic, Evangelicalist, Maya religion
related = Kanjobal - (Maya peoples)
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The Jakaltek people are a Mayan people of Guatemala. They have lived in the foothills of the Cuchumatanes Mountains in the Department of Huehuetenango in northwestern Guatemala since pre-Columbian times, centered around the town of Jacaltenango. Located on a plateau overlooking Mexico, Jacaltenango is 1,437 m above sea level and its surrounding villages are located at both higher and lower elevations. The town of Jacaltenango is a governmental, religious, and market center of the region. In the Jakaltek language the town of Jacaltenango is called Xajlaj, or “place of the big white rock slabs.”

For many years, this area was physically and culturally the most remote from Spanish centers in the country. The 72-km trip from Huehuetenango, the capital of the department, was a two-day walk. Since 1974, when an unpaved road was built from the Pan-American Highway to Jacaltenango, it has been a five-hour bus ride from Huehuetenango to Jacaltenango. Electricity came to town in 1979. [Ventura 2003] This relative isolation has resulted in the preservation of many customs in the community which have been lost elsewhere. For example the Jakaltek people still use the blowgun for hunting small birds. The Jakaltek also maintain a beliefsystem which involves Naguals and Tonals [* Stratmeyer, Dennis & Jean , 1977,"The Jacaltec Nawal and the Soul Bearer in Concepcion Huista", in "Cognitive Studies of Southern Mesoamerica", Helen L. Neuenschander and Dean E. Arnold eds.,Summer Institute of Linguistics, Museum of Anthropology Publication 3]

Notes

References

*Ventura, Carol, 2003, The Jakaltek Maya Blowgun in Mythological and historical context.


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