Remembering the Future, Anticipating the Past
History, Time, and Cosmology among the Maya of Yucatan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy M Farri, Nancy Farri (corresponding author), Nancy Farriss (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), Nancy M Farriss |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 566-593 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500014730 |
| OpenAlex | W2135217393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 46 |
This essay is about concepts of time and the past among the Maya Indians of Yucatan in southeastern Mexico. It explores how these concepts fit into the Maya's general view of the way the world works and how they relate to certain dynamics of Maya history-as we define history-during their pre-Hispanic and colonial past. One inspiration has been the often baffling written records the Maya have left, from which we try to quarry historical facts without always enquiring what the records meant to the people who produced them. The other is the reminder, provided by recent historical work from anthropologists, that people do not record their past so much as construct it, with an eye to the present, and at the same time use that past in molding the present
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