Mayan Tales from Chiapas Mexico

Release on 2014-05-01 | by Robert M. Laughlin

Author: Robert M. Laughlin
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826354495
Category: Social Science
Page: 288
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Mayan Tales from Chiapas Mexico

The forty-two stories presented in this book were told to Robert Laughlin in Tzotzil by Francisca Hernández Hernández, an elderly woman known as Doña Pancha, the only speaker of Tzotzil left in the village of San Felipe Ecatepec in Chiapas, Mexico. Laughlin and Doña Pancha’s running conversation is the source for the stories, which means they are told in much the same way that stories are told in traditional native settings. Doña Pancha is bilingual in Tzotzil and Spanish, and the stories are presented here in English, Tzotzil, and Spanish. They range from mythological sacred stories to quasi-historical legends to historical accounts of life in the twentieth century.

Language: en
Pages: 288

Mayan Tales from Chiapas, Mexico

Authors: Robert M. Laughlin

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: UNM Press

Language: en
Pages: 280

The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas

Authors: Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Andrés Brizuela Casimir

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-08 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts.