Text and Context: Yucatec Maya Literature in a Diachronic Perspective / Texto y Contexto: la Literatura Maya Yucateca en Perspectiva Diacrónica
✍ Scribed by Antje Gunsenheimer, Tsubasa Okoshi Harada, John F. Chuchiak (eds.)
- Publisher
- Shaker Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English, Spanish
- Leaves
- 385
- Series
- Bonner Amerikanistische Studien 47
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Preface ................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction
A Brief History of the Study of Yucatec Maya Literature -
Central Themes and Research Perspectives in this Volume
Antje Gunsenheimer, Tsubasa Okoshi Harada and John F. Chuchiak ................. 7
I.
Discovering Traces: Epigraphic Studies on Features and Themes in
Pre-Columbian Maya Literature
Descubriendo las huellas: estudios epigráficos sobre rasgos y temas
de la literatura maya antigua
Apuntes para un estudio sobre literatura maya antigua
Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo .......................................................................... 31
Yearbearer Rituals and Prognostications
in the Maya Codices and Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán
Gabrielle Vail ....................................................................................................... 53
Del poder de la palabra maya al dominio de la letra latina.
Problemática teórica de los análisis lingüísticos y literarios
Patricia Martel ..................................................................................................... 83
Reality Hidden in the Fiction:
Literary Traces of Hieroglyphic Sources in the Books of Chilam Balam
Antje Gunsenheimer ........................................................................................... 111
II. Observing the Change: Ethnohistoric Studies of New Text Genres
and Subjects in the Colonial Yucatec Maya Society
Observando el cambio: estudios etnohistóricos sobre nuevos géneros
de textos y temas en la sociedad maya yucateca colonial
La "historia" de los Cocom:
una lectura de la Relación de fray Diego de Landa
Tsubasa Okoshi Harada ..................................................................................... 139
'Ah Dzib Cahob yetel lay u katlilob lae’: Maya Scribes, Colonial Literacy,
and Maya Petitionary Forms in Colonial Yucatán
John F. Chuchiak ............................................................................................... 1596
Los montes yucatecos:
la percepción de un espacio en las fuentes coloniales
Inés Ortiz Yam .................................................................................................... 185
III. Recognition of Continuity: Ethnohistoric and Linguistic Studies of
a Traditional Text Genre - the Prophecies
Reconociendo la continuidad: estudios etnohistóricos y lingüísticos
sobre un género de texto tradicional – las profecías
Las profecías del Katun 5 Ahau
María Isabel López Rosas .................................................................................. 207
The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet -
the Emic Historiography of the Yucatec Maya
Bodil Liljefors Persson ....................................................................................... 229
Predicción y performatividad en la memoria histórica maya yucateca
Valentina Vapnarsky .......................................................................................... 257
IV. Creation of the Colonial Maya World: Literary and Taxonomic
Studies on Medical Texts
Creación del mundo maya colonial: estudios literarios y taxonómicos
sobre textos medicinales
El Libro de Chilam Balam de Na como libro de pronosticación y de
curación: análisis crítico y comparativo con otros de su género
Ruth Gubler ........................................................................................................ 291
Conceptos fisiológicos sobre las enfermedades de los mayas yucatecos:
un análisis taxonómico de vocablos en los diccionarios coloniales
de la lengua maya
Shigeto Yoshida .................................................................................................. 313
Bocan, o cómo se curan incordios: medicina maya en textos coloniales
Ortwin Smailus, Armin Hinz, Annette Kern,
Karl Kramer, Christiane Müller ........................................................................ 335
Contributors/Colaboradores ........................................................................... 365
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