Time and the Highland Maya

Barbara Tedlock (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

293 Seiten

1992
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-1358-4 (ISBN)

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Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiche Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade.

The Classic Mayan obsession with time has never been better known. Here, Barbara Tedlock redirects our attention to the present-day keepers of the ancient calendar. Combining anthropology with formal apprenticeship to a diviner, she refutes long-held ethnographic assumptions and opens a door to the order of the Mayan cosmos and its daily ritual.

Unable to visit the region for over ten years, Tedlock returned in 1989 to find that observance of the traditional calendar and religion is stronger than ever, despite a brutal civil war.

". . . a well-written, highly readable, and deeply convincing contribution. . . ." --Michael Coe

Barbara Tedlock is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Research Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. She and her husband, noted antropologist Dennis Tedlock, were awarded Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2006 by PEN New Mexico.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.1992
Zusatzinfo	illustrations, map
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 235 mm
Gewicht	507 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8263-1358-2 / 0826313582
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-1358-4 / 9780826313584
Zustand	Neuware