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Chiapas Maya Awakening

Author : Sean S. Sell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806157801
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Chiapas Maya Awakening written by Sean S. Sell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico’s indigenous people speak a number of rich and complex languages today, as they did before the arrival of the Spanish. Yet a common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. Chiapas Maya Awakening, a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, Mexico, is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements. A unique trilingual edition, it presents the contributors’ works in the living Chiapas Mayan languages of Tsotsil and Tseltal, along with English and Spanish translations. As Sean S. Sell, Marceal Méndez, and Inés Hernández-Ávila explain in their thoughtful introductory pieces, the indigenous authors of this volume were born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, a time of growing cultural awareness among the native communities of Chiapas. Although the authors received a formal education, their language of instruction was Spanish, and they had to pursue independent paths to learn to read and write in their native tongues. In the book’s first half, devoted to poetry, the writers consciously speak for their communities. Their verses evoke the quetzal, the moon, and the sea and reflect the identities of those who celebrate them. The short stories that follow address aspects of modern Maya life. In these stories, mistrust and desperation yield violence among a people whose connection to the land is powerful but still precarious. Chiapas Maya Awakening demonstrates that Mayas are neither a vanished ancient civilization nor a remote, undeveloped people. Instead, through their memorable poems and stories, the indigenous writers of this volume claim a place of their own within the broader fields of national and global literature.

The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas

Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149256
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya culture, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas, the first collection to focus fully on the Ch’ol Maya, takes readers deep into ancient caves and reveals new dimensions of Ch’ol cosmology. In contemporary Ch’ol culture the contributors find a wealth of historical material that they then interweave with archaeological data to yield surprising and illuminating insights. The colonial and twentieth-century descendants of the Postclassic period Ch’ol and Lacandon Ch’ol, for instance, provide a window on the history and conquest of the early Maya. Several authors examine Early Classic paintings in the Ch’ol ritual cave known as Jolja that document ancient cave ceremonies not unlike Ch’ol rituals performed today, such as petitioning a cave-dwelling mountain spirit for health, rain, and abundant harvests. Other essays investigate deities identified with caves, mountains, lightning, and meteors to trace the continuity of ancient Maya beliefs through the centuries, in particular the ancient origin of contemporary rituals centering on the Ch’ol mountain deity Don Juan. An appendix containing three Ch’ol folktales and their English translations rounds out the volume. Charting paths literal and figurative to earlier trade routes, pre-Columbian sites, and ancient rituals and beliefs, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas opens a fresh, richly informed perspective on Maya culture as it has evolved and endured over the ages.

Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

Author : Jan Rus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742511484
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias written by Jan Rus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarship with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement.

Conflict in Chiapas

Author : Worth H. Weller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966823110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Conflict in Chiapas written by Worth H. Weller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's southernmost state, Chiapas, is a land of towering myths and extravagant beauty. Home to the largest concentration of indigenous people in the Americas, its history is marked by brutal oppression and bloodshed that extends to this day. Veteran journalist and author Worth H. Weller, who has covered conflict in Central America for two decades, breaks through the fogs of time in this book of rare insights and photographs to explore the reality of the modern Maya and their unique Zapatista revolutionary movement. An eye-witness epilogue draws a startling parallel between the cultural and economic issues that face the Maya and those that face their Sioux brethren in South Dakota at the close of the millennium. Book jacket.

Four Creations

Author : Gary H. Gossen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133317
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Four Creations written by Gary H. Gossen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Creations is a collection of seventy-four stories told to Gary H. Gossen by Tzotzil Maya storytellers in San Juan Chamula, Mexico. Spanning four cycles of creations, destructions, and restorations from the dawn of cosmic order to the present era, this epic history reveals a distinctly Maya vision of the universe, grand in scope yet leavened with local humor, irony, and the Tzotzil narrators’ own critical commentaries. Four Creations includes mythic accounts of modern history, such as the Wars of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, and the current Protestant evangelical movement. Given in both transcribed Tzotzil and English translations, the texts are enlivened by more than one hundred Maya Indian drawings and by Gossen’s extensive ethnographic and historical notes based on his conversations with the narrators and more than thirty-five years of study. Miguel León-Portílla’s Foreword situates Four Creations within the broader context of Mesoamerican culture and traditions, while the Afterword by Jan Rus relates this work to recent events in modern-day Chamula.

Weaving Chiapas

Author : Yolanda Castro Apreza
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806160942
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Chiapas written by Yolanda Castro Apreza and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, including the challenges of living in a highly patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of mainstream scholarship. Based on interviews conducted with members of the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative, the accounts gathered in this volume provide an intimate view of women’s life in the Chiapas highlands, known locally as Los Altos. We learn about their experiences of childhood, marriage, and childbirth; about subsistence farming and food traditions; and about the particular styles of clothing and even hairstyles that vary from community to community. Restricted by custom from engaging in public occupations, Los Altos women are responsible for managing their households and caring for domestic animals. But many of them long for broader opportunities, and the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative represents a bold effort by its members to assume control over and build a wider market for their own work. This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.

2013 Mayan Sunrise

Author : Sri Ram Kaa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1569758336
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book 2013 Mayan Sunrise written by Sri Ram Kaa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT WILL 2013 BRING? Many believe the world will end December 21, 2012. Is it true? When Mayan elders are asked about the end of their ancient calendar on that date, they simply smile and say, "It is the return of more light." In 2013 Mayan Sunrise, Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa take you from the peaks of Machu Pichu and the headwaters of the Ganges to the highlands of Guatemala and deep into the heart of Mayan culture. They pass along the wisdom of the high priests of the Maya, who are aware this is a hinge moment. In a time when the ecosystem is damaged beyond repair and with the world in crisis, the Maya know that a disruptive transition is near. They look to the beginning of a new era when humanity will return to a state of exquisite balance and harmony. As global chaos escalates toward the supposed end date, you have a choice--fear or awakening. Now is your opportunity: •Are you aware of the future? •How and where is your path ahead? •Are you open to trusting your inner wisdom? •Are you ready for your Mayan sunrise?

Zinacantán: a Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas

Author : Evon Zartman Vogt
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zinacantán: a Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas written by Evon Zartman Vogt and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mayan Code

Author : Barbara Hand Clow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159143999X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Mayan Code written by Barbara Hand Clow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow shows how the Mayan Calendar is a bridge to galactic wisdom that fosters personal growth and human evolution • Unearths the meaning behind the calendar, its message for modern civilization, and what will happen after the calendar ends • Reveals how time acceleration is a manifestation of the acceleration of consciousness • By the author of The Pleiadian Agenda The Mayan Code is a deep exploration of how, with the end of the Mayan Calendar, time and consciousness have been accelerating, giving us a new understanding of the universe. Using Carl Johan Calleman’s research, as well as the ideas of other Mayan Calendar scholars, Barbara Hand Clow examines 16.4 billion years of evolution to decode the creative patterns of Earth--the World Mind. These great patterns culminated in 2011, but subsequent astrological influences have continued to inspire us to attain oneness and enlightenment. The Mayan Code shows how the time cycles of the Calendar match important periods in the evolutionary data banks of Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy. These stages of evolution converged during the final stage of the Calendar, the period between 1999 and 2011. Evidence of the tightening spiral of time that we experience as time speeding up--war and territoriality, resource management and separation from nature--are all part of daily events we must process during the coming years. Barbara Hand Clow counsels that our own personal healing is the most important factor as we prepare to make this critical leap in human evolution--now referred to as the awakening of the World Mind.

Chiapas Maya

Author : Gertrude Duby Blom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Chiapas Maya written by Gertrude Duby Blom and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weaving Chiapas

Author : Yolanda Castro Apreza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806159836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Chiapas written by Yolanda Castro Apreza and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a view, in their own words, of the daily lives, the memories, the hopes and goals of the members of the Jolom Mayaetik collective, an organization of Chiapas weavers, as these women work to retain their ancient traditions and adapt to an increasingly complex world."--Provided by publisher.

A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language

Author : Nora C. England
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029276247X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language written by Nora C. England and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today by over 400,000 people in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The result of over three years of extensive fieldwork in Guatemala, A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language is based on the dialect of Mam spoken by 12,000 people in San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. England organizes A Grammar of Mam according to two complementary principles: to analyze Mam following basically traditional levels of grammatical description and to present material in such a way that the background information necessary for understanding each topic of discussion shall have been previously provided. Accordingly, England's analysis of the sound system and morphophonemic processes of Mam is followed by a description of the characteristics of root, inflectional, and derivational morphology. Chapters on phrase structure precede two chapters on sentence-level syntax. A Grammar of Mam is of particular interest in analyzing a Mayan language that is both syntactically and morphologically ergative and that is innovative in the direction of strengthening the ergative system. Indeed at all levels of linguistic organization Mam is innovative, and for this reason it is uniquely interesting both historically and theoretically.

Maya Yok'Hah Workbook by Hunbatz Men

Author : Hunbatz Men
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Maya Yok'Hah Workbook by Hunbatz Men written by Hunbatz Men and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ~:::AWAKENING THE SERPENT OF LIGHT::: SHARING ANCIENT MAYA WISDOMS NOW AVAILABLE:::~ ::82 PAGES:: In dedication and Honor to Maestro Hunbatz Men. All royalties will go directly to support the Lol Be Cultural Center in the Yucatan Mexico. The Maya Yoga (Yok'hah) work includes 8 Key systems of Holistic Yoga Practice including: Mantra (chant), Mudra (hand signs),Pranayam (breath), Hatha (posture), and Meditation used in sequence to attain a Unified state of awareness. This work is sanctioned through Hunbatz Men's Cosmic Initiatic University Yucatan, Mexico. Also includes philosophy and cosmology in the following areas which I will be adding first hand experience to in the edited version 2. Co written by Master Hunbatz Men and Lennie Martin. Chapter Index: Origin of the Mayan People and History of Maya Mysticism Maya Glyphic Writing Cosmic Maya Calendars Mayan Mystic Language and The Zuvuya as a Maya Mystery Maya Social Organization: The Kuchteel & The Cycles of Life Maya Sexual Education. The Chakras as Generators of Life Sacred Maya Geometry The Human Body as a Duality of Energy Deities of the Maya Cosmogony It is with great honor and gratitude to bring you this project. Before his passing in 2016, Hunbatz Men asked me to partner with him to edit, expand, and research his current University workbook into a published piece. My name is Tuvasana, I am of Cherokee and Scottish descent. I am a published writer in the Library of Congress anthology "In Between Darkness and Light". For a work of poetry entitled "Thoughts of Time" Over the past 10 years I have worked closely with Hunbatz Men, Lennie Martin, Jose Arguelles, John Major Jenkins, Drunvalo Melchizedek, , Thunderbeat Devara, Robert Roskind, Merlin, and others on this Initiatic journey. Along with other Maya Elders, Hawaiian Wisdom Keepers, Cherokee, Tibetan, Hermetic, and other Indigenous and Earth Stewarding guardians who have illumined the flame of my inner most truths. In 2005 I travelled to Tikal and spent extensive time with the Maya Culture including Ta Ta Pedro Cruz. Where we did 7 days of ceremony leading of to Dec 21st. This was my introduction to the Maya culture, followed by a 5 month sojourn the the Guatemala Highlands of Lake Atitlantis. I co organized the Prayer Run for World Peace that year for Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota Sioux Nation. Where I ran with a Youth Group, relay style 20-30 miles per day from Taos Pueblo to Piedmont South Dakota. This was my re-invitation to the Red Road. In 2011 I co organized the Crystal Skulls Pilgrimage with Hunbatz Men Unify.org, and Drunvalo Melchizedek, more information on this will be included in my upcoming book of which this release is a fundraiser for. I am currently compiling my autobiography work entitled, "Memoirs of the End of Time". This work is dedicated to the liberation of suffering and the incubation of Peace and healing for all beings. Feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Zinacantan

Author : Evon Zartman Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783744391
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Zinacantan written by Evon Zartman Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Maya

Author : Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145511
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Maya written by Megan E. O’Neil and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the preclassical period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of outside engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists, taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs, and Indigenous activism. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.

Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children

Author : Mikel Ruiz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438492987
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Ch’ayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children written by Mikel Ruiz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikel Ruiz's The Errant Children, the first novel published in the Tsotsil Maya language, offers a bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, México. Pedro Ton Tsepente' has a position in his village's traditional council, but rather than taking just a few ceremonial drinks, he becomes an alcoholic, subject to blackouts and delirium tremens. His wife, Pascuala, rages at God to step in and change her husband's behavior, taking extreme measures when He does not. Their neighbor, seventeen-year-old Ignacio Ts'unun, learns about gender relations by watching television programs where beautiful women are lighter-skinned and about sex by watching pornography, which leads to disastrous choices. These characters' suffering comes not from conquerors, missionaries, or settlers but from invasive economic and cultural forces that can make Indigenous people devalue themselves. Do not expect to be uplifted, but do prepare to be astonished.

Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana

Author : Lila Bujaldón de Esteves
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030236250
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana written by Lila Bujaldón de Esteves and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book contributes to the growing field of self-translation studies by exploring the diversity of roles the practice has in Spanish-speaking contexts of production on both sides of the Atlantic. Part I surveys the presence of self-translation in contemporary Indigenous literatures in Spanish America, with a focus on Mexico and the Mapuche poetry of Chile and Argentina. Part II proposes to incorporate self-translation into the history of Spanish-American literatures- including its relation with colonial multilingual-translation practices, the transfers it allowed between the French and Spanish-American avant-gardes, and the insertion it offered for exiled Republicans in Mexico. Part III develops new reflections on the Iberian realm: on the choice between self and allograph translation Basque writers must face, a new category in Xosé Dasilva’s typology, based on the Galician context, and the need to expand the analysis of directionality in Catalan self-translations. This book brings together contributions from some of the leading international experts in translation and self-translation, and it will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Spanish Literature, Spanish American and Latin American Literature, and Amerindian Literatures.