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2000 YEARS OF MAYAN LITERATURE
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Dennis Tedlock |
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Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520232216 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520232211 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 August, 2004 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
Offers an illustrated survey of Mayan literature, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. This book considers the texts chronologically. It establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. |
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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 Tedlock - ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author - draws 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. |
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78 b/w photographs, 291 line illustrations, 20 maps |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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Returnable |
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