Quiché (English spelling)

Japanese: キチェー(英語表記)Quiché
Quiché (English spelling)
Indigenous Mayan-speaking people living in many mountain villages in the highlands of central-western Guatemala in Central America. Estimated population: 550,000. The largest indigenous language group in Guatemala. Each village has its own unique cultural type and social and religious organization, and there is no political unity in the Quiché-speaking area as a whole. There is a high degree of fusion of indigenous religion and Christianity, and many villages have cofradías, religious organizations named after Catholic saints. Their main occupation is the cultivation of corn, beans, and pumpkins using slash-and-burn agriculture, but many villages also produce textiles and furniture, and the Guatemalan highlands, including the Quiché-speaking area, have a well-developed distribution economy through regular markets.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
中央アメリカのグアテマラ中西部高地の多数の山間村落に分住するマヤ語系の原住民。推定人口約55万。グアテマラ最大の土着語集団である。各村落は互いに固有の文化型と社会・宗教組織を持ち,キチェー語圏全体としての政治的統一はない。土着宗教とキリスト教の高度な融合が見られ,コフラディアcofradíaと呼ばれるカトリックの聖人にちなむ講組織が多くの村に発達している。焼畑農法に基づくトウモロコシ,豆,カボチャの栽培を主生業とするが,織物,家具などを特産する村も多く,キチェー語圏を含むグアテマラ高地には,定期市を介した流通経済が発達している。

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