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Author : Fernando Peñalosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007529450
Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.,Donald Haase Ph.D.,Helen J. Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1751 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610692540
Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
Author : Arturo Arias
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438467412
Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives. Recovering Lost Footprints is the first full-length critical study to analyze Latin American Indigenous literary narratives in a systematic manner. In the book, Arturo Arias looks at Maya narratives in Guatemala. The study of these works is intended to spark changes so that constitutions recognize these cultures, their rights, their languages, their centers of worship, and their cosmologies. Through this study, Arias problematizes the partial or full omission of Latin America’s original inhabitants from recognized citizenry. This book analyzes these elements of exclusion in the novelistic output of three salient figures, Luis de Lión, Gaspar Pedro González, and Víctor Montejo. The works by these writers offer evidence that most native people have entered modernity without renouncing their respective cultures or the specifics of their singular identities. The philosophical ethics elaborated in the texts, such as respect for nature and recognition of the holistic value of natural beings, enable non-Indigenous readers to both understand and relate to these values. Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America.
Author : Sharon Barcan Elswit
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476622293
Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides ("...an invaluable resource..."--School Library Journal), this book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. The tales are grouped into themed sections with a detailed subject index.
Author : Dennis Tedlock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520271371
A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet.
Author : Stephen Houston,David Stuart,Karl Taube
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292712942
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. The authors open with a cartography of the Maya body, its parts and their meanings, as depicted in imagery and texts. They go on to explore such issues as how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality that were intimately bound up in these domains; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
Author : Stephen Warner,Judith G. Wittner
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566396141
Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.
Author : Eladio Mateo Toledo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004289987
In this volume, Eladio Mateo Toledo provides a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, ditransitives, causatives, and directional constructions. Although causatives and directionals are explored in Mayan languages, this is the first coherent account of a series complex predicates in a Mayan language.
Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000122978772
Provides alphabetically arranged entries on folk and fairy tales from around the world, including information on authors, subjects, themes, characters, and national traditions.
Author : Kelly Kerney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698194281
An ambitious and unforgettable epic novel that spans a hundred years of Guatemala’s tumultuous history as experienced by four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl In 1902, a young girl watches her family’s life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador becomes trapped in the intrigue of a cold war love affair. In 1983, an evangelical missionary discovers that the Good News may not be good news at all to the Mayan refugees she hopes to save. And in 1999, the mother of an adopted Mayan daughter embarks on a Roots Tour only to find that the history she seeks is not safely in the past. Kelly Kerney’s novel tells a powerful story that draws on the history of Guatemala and the legacy of American intervention to vividly evoke The Land of Eternal Spring in all its promise and all its devastating failures. This is a place where a volcano erupts and the government sends a band to drown out the sound of destruction; where a government decree reverses the direction of one-way streets; a president decides that Pat Robertson and Jesus will save the country; and where a UN commission is needed to determine the truth. A heartrending and masterfully written look at a country in perpetual turmoil, Hard Red Spring brilliantly reveals how the brutal realities of history play out in the lives of individuals and reveals Guatemala in a manner reminiscent of the groundbreaking memoir I, Rigoberta Menchu.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373955
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Sebastian Berg
Publisher : Creek Ridge Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Mayan people were natural storytellers, and their imagination knew no bounds. They took the traditional Mesoamerican versions of creation and the gods of the universe and molded them into their own, adding and shaping their unique version of mythology and folktales. This left us with a significant pantheon of gods and goddesses, each with a memorable and captivating story. The Mayans had an image of the universe and their place in it, and they told stories of gods and heroes that rival Greek Mythology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023992284
Author : Kezip Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153745286X
The beginner's guide to Mayan mythology that's perfect for both casual and academic use. It's written such that anyone can pick it up and start reading, even those who know nothing of the Mayans or mythology. The first section uses a cheeky tone to teach a little about the lives and worldviews of the people. The next section has short versions of most existing myths rewritten to be easy to read without losing vital information. Finally, the back contains an appendix of important characters, places, creatures, and objects. -Great for supplementing a student's education. -Contains cheat sheets of important characters and places that provide short descriptions to help refresh your memory. -Includes 35 stories. -Introduction uses a quirky tone to make it fun to learn those less exciting parts like setting and religious worldview. -Appendix includes detailed descriptions of important characters, places, objects, and creatures. -Like most mythology, this is not recommended for young children due to violence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000046655266
