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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
ISBN 13 : 9523690590
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature written by Rani-Henrik Andersson and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.

Telling and Being Told

Author : Paul M. Worley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599092
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Telling and Being Told written by Paul M. Worley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analyzing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures. Through performance, storytellers place the past in dynamic relationship with the present, each continually evolving as it is reevaluated and reinterpreted. Yet non-indigenous actors often manipulate the storyteller in their firsthand accounts of the indigenous world. Moreover, by limiting the field of literary study to written texts, Worley argues, critics frequently ignore an important component of Latin America’s history of conquest and colonization: The fact that Europeans consciously set out to destroy indigenous writing systems, making orality a key means of indigenous resistance and cultural continuity. Given these historical factors, outsiders must approach Yucatec Maya and other indigenous literatures on their own terms rather than applying Western models. Although oral literature has been excluded from many literary studies, Worley persuasively demonstrates that it must be included in contemporary analyses of indigenous literatures as oral texts form a key component of contemporary indigenous literatures, and storytellers and storytelling remain vibrant cultural forces in both Yucatec communities and contemporary Yucatec writing.

Itzaj Maya Grammar

Author : Charles Andrew Hofling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Itzaj Maya Grammar written by Charles Andrew Hofling and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Itzaj Maya language is member of a the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mopan, and Lakantun. Many Classic Maya hieroglyphic texts were written in an earlier form of these languages, as were many important colonial documents. In addition to being a valuable record of an ancient language, Andrew Hofling's Itzaj Maya Grammar contributes greatly to the study of these older documents. This exemplary grammar completes a basic documentation that began with Itzaj Maya Texts and Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary. Its coverage of the linguistic structures of Itzaj includes the phonological, morphophonological, and syntactic structures. Each morphological and grammatical construction is carefully explained, with additional examples of each construction included. Itzaj Maya Grammar is a landmark contribution to the study of discourse in Maya languages. When used with Hofling's previous texts, it provides a thoroughly dynamic documentation of the language, useful to all interested in the study of Yukatekan languages or linguistics.

Relatively Speaking

Author : Eve Danziger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356772
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Relatively Speaking written by Eve Danziger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition.

Maaya t'aan junp'éel

Author : Javier Gómez Navarrete
Publisher : UQROO
ISBN 13 : 9789687864280
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Maaya t'aan junp'éel written by Javier Gómez Navarrete and published by UQROO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U Janal Aj Maya

Author : Garcia Aurora Saqui
Publisher : Produccicones de La Hamaca
ISBN 13 : 9789768142542
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis U Janal Aj Maya by : Garcia Aurora Saqui

Download or read book U Janal Aj Maya written by Garcia Aurora Saqui and published by Produccicones de La Hamaca. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U Janal Aj Maya: Traditional Maya Cuisine is a cookbook written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, artist, herbalist, Mayan activist and cook who was born into a Yucatec Maya farming family in Belize. With this book you can learn how to prepare traditional Mayan food from garden to table with recipes that have been passed down through the generations. The cookbook is written in English with the names of the recipes given in Yucatec Maya, Mopan Maya, Creole, and English.

Diccionario Maya Mopan - Espanol - Ingles

Author : Charles A Hofling
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 1607819783
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Diccionario Maya Mopan - Espanol - Ingles written by Charles A Hofling and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan) language, providing introductory grammatical description, as well as parts of speech, examples, cross-references, variant forms, homophones, and indexes....

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos

Author : Carlos Montemayor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292744749
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Frischmann and Montemayor have abundantly annotated the English, Spanish, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that trace the development of indigenous texts, literacy, and writing. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples. The other volumes of this work will be Volume 2: Poetry/Poesía and Volume 3: Theater/Teatro.

Plants of the Petén Itza’ Maya

Author : Scott Atran
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703556
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Plants of the Petén Itza’ Maya written by Scott Atran and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Itza’ Maya of the Petén in Guatemala preside over a unique rainforest biosphere in danger of disappearing. Equally at risk is their own botanical knowledge, from taxonomy to medicinal uses. This volume contains a history of the Petén Itza’ Maya; explanation of Itza’ taxonomy; tables and keys to plant usage; common names in English, Spanish, and several indigenous languages; and much more.

Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya

Author : Aurora Garcia Saqui
Publisher : Produccicones de La Hamaca
ISBN 13 : 9789768142863
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya written by Aurora Garcia Saqui and published by Produccicones de La Hamaca. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya: Maya Herbal Medicine is written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, a well-known natural healer in Belize. She was trained by her grand-uncle, the famous Don Eligio Panti in traditional Maya medicine. A Yucatec Maya who grew up in rural Belize, she is adamant about practicing and conserving her Maya culture, which is reflected in her descriptions of Maya remedies for illnesses and complaints. Included are photos and descriptions of all the plants used in this book of Maya traditional healing.

Chicle

Author : Jennifer P. Mathews
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816528219
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Chicle written by Jennifer P. Mathews and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on the sticky white substance that seeps from the sapodilla tree when its bark is cut. First, Jennifer Mathews recounts the story of chicle and its earliest-known adherents, the Maya and Aztecs. Second, with the assistance of botanist Gillian Schultz, Mathews examines the sapodilla tree itself, an extraordinarily hardy plant that is native only to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Third, Mathews presents the fascinating story of the chicle and chewing gum industry over the last hundred plus years, a tale (like so many twentieth-century tales) of greed, growth, and collapse. In closing, Mathews considers the plight of the chicleros, the "extractors" who often work by themselves tapping trees deep in the forests, and how they have emerged as icons of local pop culture -- portrayed as fearless, hard-drinking brawlers, people to be respected as well as feared. --publisher description.

Mayan Cuisine

Author : Daniel Hoyer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423610243
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Mayan Cuisine written by Daniel Hoyer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings us the authentic recipes of the Maya with Mayan Cuisine, along with his personal experiences that make the historical and cultural background of this people accessible and enjoyable.

English Maya Lexicon

Author : Robert Goh
Publisher : Truth Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Maya Lexicon written by Robert Goh and published by Truth Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English > Maya lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. The corresponding Chinese lexicon has a vocabulary of 2,429 characters, 95% of which are in the primary group of 3,500 general standard Chinese characters issued by China's Ministry of Education in 2013.

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México

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Author : Carlos Montemayor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705807
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations.

Morphologies in Contact

Author : Martine Vanhove
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3050057696
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Morphologies in Contact written by Martine Vanhove and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.

Kaloomte: Book 1, Vol 2: Yucatec

Author : E. K. Bolles
Publisher : E. K. Bolles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaloomte: Book 1, Vol 2: Yucatec written by E. K. Bolles and published by E. K. Bolles. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U ch’i’ibalil ti’ Mutule’, ku seen ye’esik u ya’ala’al Kaloomte yéetel leti’ob ka’ach u yuumilo’ob ti’ u kaabalil xaman lu’umilo’ob. Ba’ale’ u seeba’an úuch kíimil ti’ le ajawo’ tu k’úubaj u ix-yaalil, Ix Kine’, yéetel u j-yaalil, Wak Chan K’awile’, ti’ u beetbil óolal múul-tuukul ti’ Nacom Báalam. Ka’alilkile’, yaan ka’ach chíichnakil t’aano’ob ku ya’aliko’ob u Kan lu’umil-ajaw ts’o’ok ka’ach u líik’il ti’ úuch u toopol ichil 400 ja’abo’obake’. Jujuntúulile’, u yéet-ba’atelo’ob ti’ Mutul ku chuun u toopol tumen k’uuxtaambal lemáax táan u naats’ikubaj. Je’el wáaj u béeytal ka Mutule’ máana’ak yáanal ti’ u xóot’-nup’bajilo’ob yéetel u kaxtiko’ob kuxtal kex yo’osal le sajbe’entsil táan u ch’éenebil u yoocheliloob ti’ le maya lu’umilo’.Lela u ka’ap’éelil ti’ jo’p’éel múuch’ ts’íib ku taasik u k’aylaj ti’ Mutul beyxan Kan ichil u ba’atelil ti’al u kaxtiko’ob kuxtal yéetel u pets’iko’ob u lu’umil mayae’, beyxan, tu ts’o’okole’, u k’áatiko’ob u ya’ala’al ti’ Kaloomte (Noj-jala’achil).

How to Kill a Dragon

Author : Calvert Watkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195085957
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a Dragon written by Calvert Watkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition. Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of comparative Indo-European poetics; he explores the Saussurian notions of synchrony and diachrony, and locates the various Indo-European traditions and ideologies of the spoken word. Further, his overview presents case studies on the forms of verbal art, with selected texts drawn from Indic, Iranian, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Armenian, Celtic, and Germanic languages. In the remainder of the book, Watkins examines in detail the structure of the dragon/serpent-slaying myths, which recur in various guises throughout the Indo-European poetic tradition. He finds the "signature" formula for the myth--the divine hero who slays the serpent or overcomes adversaries--occurs in the same linguistic form in a wide range of sources and over millennia, including Old and Middle Iranian holy books, Greek epic, Celtic and Germanic sagas, down to Armenian oral folk epic of the last century. Watkins argues that this formula is the vehicle for the central theme of a proto-text, and a central part of the symbolic culture of speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language: the relation of humans to their universe, the values and expectations of their society. Therefore, he further argues, poetry was a social necessity for Indo- European society, where the poet could confer on patrons what they and their culture valued above all else: "imperishable fame."