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Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1309885 in Books
- Published on: 1999-02-01
- Original language: Spanish
- Dimensions: .81" h x 6.13" w x 9.28" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 299 pages
Editorial Reviews
Colonial Latin America Historical Review, Summer 1999
This wonderful collection of stories from the rich Mayan mythic heritage contains a panorama of tales about witches, shamans, spiritualists, and picaresque figures who inhabit the upper and underworlds
Ethnohistory, Vol. 30, 1993
The diaries (Son of Tecun Uman: A Maya Indian Tells His Life Story 1981; Campesino: The Diary of a Guatemalan Indian 1985; Ignacio) and the folktales weave together to provide one of the most important sets of documents we have for Guatemala and Mesoamerica.
The folktales display aspects of the Tzutuhil worldview and affective life not found in the diaries. For example, in life, a strict morality governs relations between the spouses. In art, there is a tense, lusty, more open relationship. In life, laziness is a scandal, nearly a sin. In art, laziness combined with cunning can pay off. In origin myths, the Tzutuhil rework the Garden of Eden story and somehow make it less stern than the western version. The folktales also describe the morality of reciprocity, beliefs in ultimate justice, robust sexuality, Chaucerian priests, tricksters, and the Tzutuhil natural and supernatural landscape. Many of the tales are cautionary, reflections of what is and what ought to be, and many of them are strong, ribald, just plain racy, and funny stories.
The Bizarro-Sexton team is a rare good event for Mesoamerican scholarship. They have produced documents of great value to ethnographers, historians, political scientists, community developers, folklorists, and the general audience. The documents will be mined and minded for generations
Choice, May, 1993
Folklore is both literature and an ethnographic record. Sexton's collection can be appreciated from a wide variety of perspectives that fall somewhere between the literary and the ethnographic. ...the collection serves splendidly the purpose of a wide variety of readers. All levels
