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2000 years of Mayan literature
- Title
- 2000 years of Mayan literature / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author.
- Author
- Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JGF 10-173 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 465 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Two thousand years of Mayan literature
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Includes parallel Mayan and English text.
- Contents
- Learning to read -- Early Mayan writing -- The skilled observer from Maxam -- From the time of gods to the time of lords -- Cormorant and her three sons -- Temple of the Sun-eyed shield -- Temple of the Tree of yellow corn -- Lady Shark fin and the evening star -- The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones -- Drawing and designing with words -- Graffiti -- The question of the beginning and end of time -- The mouth of the well of the Itza -- Writing on the pages of books -- Signs of the times -- Moon woman meets the stars -- The power of the great star -- Thunderstorm -- Diagrams of the days -- The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands -- The books of Chilam Balam -- Understanding the language of Suyua -- Song of the birth of the twenty days -- Conversations with madness -- The alphabet arrives in the Highlands -- A way to see the dawn of life -- Blood moon becomes a trickster -- The death of death -- The human work, the human design -- We saw it all, oh my sons -- The count of days -- Man of Rabinal -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JGF 10-173
- ISBN
- 9780520232211 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520232216 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009003366
- OCLC
- 300463253
- Author
- Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-
- Title
- 2000 years of Mayan literature / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Includes parallel Mayan and English text.
- Research Call Number
- JGF 10-173