Belize: Once More With Feeling: A Forbidden Performance Of The 'Great Speech' Of The Mopan Maya

Belize: Once More With Feeling: A Forbidden Performance Of The 'Great Speech' Of The Mopan Maya Eve Danziger, 2011   The Great Speech of the Mopan Maya cannot be simulated, for fear of supernatural consequences. Above all, sexual partners may not engage in it. On one occasion, however, a Mopan husband and wife did agree to demonstrate this genre to me. They were well aware that what they were doing was highly taboo, as their use of containment strategies makes clear. I propose from this...

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