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Author : Janferie Joy Stone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Black Man Tale in Guatemalan Folklore written by Janferie Joy Stone and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janferie Joy Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Guatemalan Tale of Two Wives written by Janferie Joy Stone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Harbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567510683
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Bridge of Courage written by Jennifer Harbury and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personal histories of participants in 1980s-90s guerrilla movements against Guatemala's military regime, collected by a US citizen who lost Guatemalan husband in struggle, and prefaced by scathing history of Guatemala since 1930s by Noam Chomsky. Simplistic and not on par with similar published remembrances from El Salvador and Nicaragua"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author : James D. Sexton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mayan Folktales written by James D. Sexton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of thirty-five folktales from Guatemala which transport the reader to the haunting stories of witches and shamans, spiritualists and apies, Naguales, or persons who have the power to change into animal forms and devils. These stories are educational, instructive, mysterious, wise and sometimes simply funny.
Author : Sarah C. Blaffer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292769849
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Black-Man of Zinacantan written by Sarah C. Blaffer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this work is anomalies—those things that are between one state and another, neither dead nor alive, neither animal nor human. In this instance, they are the "spooks" (espantos) that inhabit the Maya area: the charcoal-cruncher, a disembodied head that goes off into the night to eat charcoal; the characotels, men who have turned into animals in order to steal chickens; and others. The victims chosen by spooks are likewise between two states: they are caught while asleep or drunk; or they may be humans who ignore social conventions and behave in "un-human" manner. The Black-man of Zinacantan focuses on a small, super-sexed demon who possesses a six-foot-long, death-dealing penis and a penchant for mischief-making. This demon is known in Highland Chiapas as h'ik'al, the Black-man. Although h'ik'al's prototype may have been the bat deity, an ancient Maya god of sacrifice, the demon has been adapted to contemporary life. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies and shows h'ik'al as a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter, who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. The data for the study was recorded in Zinacantan, a Tzotzil-speaking Maya community, and in other Maya towns in southern Mexico and Guatemala; the study includes an analysis of tales recorded and translated by Robert M. Laughlin. The drawings that decorate the text were adapted by Virginia Savage and Joseph Barbieri. Besides being a comprehensive treatment of Maya demonology, the book demonstrates the newer approaches in comparative mythology of Claude Lévi-Strauss and others.
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Black-man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333685
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Silence on the Mountain written by Daniel Wilkinson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
Author : Miguel Angel Asturias
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ISBN 13 : 9781891270536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Legends of Guatemala written by Miguel Angel Asturias and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
Author : Deborah Chandler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732352865
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Traditional Weavers of Guatemala written by Deborah Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Guatemala is a land of contrasts: stunning mountain, river, and cloud forest landscapes with the constant threat of volcanic eruptions, mudslides, earthquakes, and brutal upheavals. Against this backdrop, the indigenous Maya and their Ladino compatriots persist in creating some of the loveliest and most colorful textiles the world has known. Their weaving, spinning, and basketmaking have sustained them economically and culturally against the pressures of change and a thirty-six year armed conflict that decimated their population. In Traditional Weavers of Guatemala, twenty artisans share their personal histories, hopes, and dreams along with the products of their hands and looms"--Inside cover.
Author : Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Emerald Lizard written by Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Guatemala legends and folklore from days of the Maya, the conquistadors and modern times.
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Black-man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Lida Sal written by Miguel Angel Asturias and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English-language edition of El espejo de Lida Sal (see HLAS 30:3268), in which the Nobel laureate melds Mayan and Guatemalan myth and folklore in 10 stories whose hallucinatory prose challenges the reader. 'Everything unfolds in a land of natural dreamscapes ... The imagination reels.' Although lacking a table of contents and translator's note, the superb translation recommends the work for classroom use
Author : Shane WHITE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674045149
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Stories of Freedom in Black New York written by Shane WHITE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls, and the grubbiness of the Police Office. It allows us to observe the style of black men and women, to watch their public behavior, and to hear the cries of black hawkers, the strident music of black parades, and the sly stories of black conmen. Taking center stage in this story is the African Company, a black theater troupe that exemplified the new spirit of experimentation that accompanied slavery's demise. For a few short years in the 1820s, a group of black New Yorkers, many of them ex-slaves, challenged pervasive prejudice and performed plays, including Shakespearean productions, before mixed race audiences. Their audacity provoked feelings of excitement and hope among blacks, but often of disgust by many whites for whom the theater's existence epitomized the horrors of emancipation. Stories of Freedom in Black New York brilliantly intertwines black theater and urban life into a powerful interpretation of what the end of slavery meant for blacks, whites, and New York City itself. White's story of the emergence of free black culture offers a unique understanding of emancipation's impact on everyday life, and on the many forms freedom can take.
Author : George Byron Gordon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guatemala Myths written by George Byron Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Víctor Montejo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545782
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book El Q'anil written by Víctor Montejo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-02-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of El Q'anil, the "Man of Lightning," stands alongside such classic Maya literary artifacts as Popol Vuh and Chilam Balam but has been preserved only through the oral tradition of the Jakaltek Maya. In this tale, the young man Xhuwan Q'anil brings lightning to his people in order to save them from destruction. He undertakes a journey of adventure, participates in a great war, and is subsequently immortalized. It is a story that all Jakaltek children learn, one that reinforces their identity by showing that their people have a hero who lives in each Jakaltek Maya today. Víctor Montejo, who was raised in Maya culture and knows its lore intimately, compiled several versions of the legend in Guatemala during the height of paramilitary operations in that country in the 1980s. His contemporary reconstruction lovingly preserves this legend and reflects concern for the survival of Maya culture in the face of oppression. Just as the Maya people of western Guatemala continue to pray for peace at the sanctuary of Q'anil, the legend of the Man of Lightning affirms a culture's enduring traditions. In this edition, the text is presented in English, Spanish, and Jakaltek Maya to secure its deserved place in world literature.
Author : Larry L. Richman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941846011
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Tales of the Cakchiquels written by Larry L. Richman and published by . This book was released on 1984-09-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original tales of the Cakchiquel Indians from Guatemala, translated into Spanish and English.
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ISBN 13 : 9780780731349
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
