Time and the Highland Maya (Woodrow Wilson Center Special) - Softcover

Tedlock, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826313582 ISBN 13: 9780826313584

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 1992

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Book by Tedlock Barbara

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Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quich Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade. The Classic Mayan obsession with time has never been better known. Here, Barbara Tedlock redirects our attention to the present-day keepers of the ancient calendar. Combining anthropology with formal apprenticeship to a diviner, she refutes long-held ethnographic assumptions and opens a door to the order of the Mayan cosmos and its daily ritual. Unable to visit the region for over ten years, Tedlock returned in 1989 to find that observance of the traditional calendar and religion is stronger than ever, despite a brutal civil war. ". . . a well-written, highly readable, and deeply convincing contribution. . . ." --Michael Coe

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Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this account of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiche Indians of highland Guatemala has been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade.

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• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0826313582
• ISBN 13: 9780826313584
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 293