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2000 years of Mayan literature

By Dennis , Tedlock

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0520232216, 978-0-520-23221-1, 9780520944466, 0520944461
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19719530 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
465\481
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Mayan literature -- History and criticism.

Description

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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