2000 Years of Mayan Literature
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Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlockethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning authordraws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Literature expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520232211 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 02 Feb 2010 |
DEWEY: | 897.4209 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 465 |
Weight: | 1340g |
Height: | 254mm |
Width: | 178mm |
Spine width: | 38mm |