Adolfo Vázquez Alonso. Goodbye to a missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Authors

  • Alfonso Arrivillaga Dirección General de Investigación

Keywords:

popular tradition, Mayan ethnomusicology

Abstract

Adolfo Vásquez Alonso (Asturias, October 27, 1937 - Madrid, July 29, 2017) was a missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who arrived in Guatemala from Asturias, Spain, in the 1960s. Father Vásquez Alonso became interested in knowing and recording indigenous traditions, since he was sent to San Pedro Jocopilas and then to Santa María Nebaj, both municipalities of Quiché.

 

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Author Biography

Alfonso Arrivillaga, Dirección General de Investigación

Anthropologist, ethnomusicologist. Senior researcher at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Author of various articles on his specialty. Editor of the Journal of Ethnomusicology Senderos.

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Published

2018-06-14

How to Cite

Arrivillaga, A. (2018). Adolfo Vázquez Alonso. Goodbye to a missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, 4(2), 169–170. Retrieved from https://revistas.usac.edu.gt/index.php/csh/article/view/549

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Homenajes

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Copyright (c) 2017 Alfonso Arrivillaga

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