2000 Years of Mayan Literature

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2000 Years of Mayan Literature

2000 Years of Mayan Literature

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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780520271371
ISBN10 0520271378
Number Of Pages 480
Item Weight 1043 g
Product Dimensions 178 x 254 x 28 mm
Publisher / Reseller University of California Press
Format paperback
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"Imaginatively written, superbly illustrated, beautifully produced and, above all, highly authoritative... For those seriously interested in Mayan writing, the book is a must-buy." -- Andrew Robinson Current World Archaeology 20100515 "A revelatory book ... beautifully illustrated and handsomely presented." Scotsman 20100327 "If you're drawn to global cultures, languages and mythology, this is a cool book to explore." -- David Crumm Read The Spirit 20100316 "A hefty scholarly work that reads like serialized magazine articles ... quite accessible to the general reader." -- David Steinberg Albuquerque Journal 20100314 "[Tedlock] draws out the poetic quality of Maya writing and shows the vibrancy, changing and living qualities of Mayan writing." -- Walter E. Little University at Albany, SUNY Bltn Of Latin American Research 20121221

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Author's Bio

Dennis Tedlock is Distinguished Professor and Endowed McNulty Chair of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. He won the PEN Translation Prize for Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. For his other books he has received awards from the American Folklore Society, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and the Association of American Publishers.

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