Mayan Tales from Chiapas, Mexico

Mayan Tales from Chiapas, Mexico
ISBN-10
0826354491
ISBN-13
9780826354495
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2014-05-01
Publisher
UNM Press
Author
Robert M. Laughlin

Description

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.

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