Sandra L Orellana
Biographic Data
| ID | 193757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra L Orellana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra L |
| FAMILY NAME | Orellana |
| SIGNATURE | ORELLANA S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Dominguez Hills |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4225-2367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
El negro del volcán y El origen del lago Atitlán en Maya-Tzutujil
he first of these texts in the Maya-tzutujil language of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, deals with the adventures of a woman who was abducted by a black devil and hidden inside the volcano of Atitlan. Eventually the evil Itzel Binak is killed thanks to the magic arts of two local witch doctors. The other text is the story of how Lake Atitlan was born, and how certain evil spirits still live there.
Ethnohistory of the Pacific Coast
Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
The Tzutujil Mayas
The Tzutujil Mayas
Idols and Idolatry in Highland Guatemala
The highland Maya of pre-contact times possessed a polytheistic religion involving the worship of many dieties with differing characteristics. These gods were often represented in the form of idols. Despite Spanish attempts to eradicate this religion, idolatry symbolic of the earlier belief system survived well into the 19th century and even later. The town council and the cofradia provided the contexts within which aboriginal beliefs and practic…
Part five
This paper will examine Indian medical knowledge and practices described by priests and chroniclers during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Writings from the sixteenth century deal primarily with Indian medicine as it existed prior to contact. Most of the sources are from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and describe surviving Indian herbal medical lore. Much of this was similar or identical to that of pre‐Hispanic times, but by the…
Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Boundaries of the Tzutujil Maya
Archaeological data concerning the immediate pre-Conquest habitation pattern of the Tzutujil Maya is correlated with data obtained from sixteenth century documents and modern ethnography. Changes in this pattern over time are discussed and the reasons for such changes as well as basic continuities are analyzed
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
Idols and Idolatry in Highland Guatemala
The highland Maya of pre-contact times possessed a polytheistic religion involving the worship of many dieties with differing characteristics. These gods were often represented in the form of idols. Despite Spanish attempts to eradicate this religion, idolatry symbolic of the earlier belief system survived well into the 19th century and even later. The town council and the cofradia provided the contexts within which aboriginal beliefs and practic…
The Tzutujil Mayas
Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Boundaries of the Tzutujil Maya
Archaeological data concerning the immediate pre-Conquest habitation pattern of the Tzutujil Maya is correlated with data obtained from sixteenth century documents and modern ethnography. Changes in this pattern over time are discussed and the reasons for such changes as well as basic continuities are analyzed
Part five
This paper will examine Indian medical knowledge and practices described by priests and chroniclers during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Writings from the sixteenth century deal primarily with Indian medicine as it existed prior to contact. Most of the sources are from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and describe surviving Indian herbal medical lore. Much of this was similar or identical to that of pre‐Hispanic times, but by the…
Idols and Idolatry in Highland Guatemala
The highland Maya of pre-contact times possessed a polytheistic religion involving the worship of many dieties with differing characteristics. These gods were often represented in the form of idols. Despite Spanish attempts to eradicate this religion, idolatry symbolic of the earlier belief system survived well into the 19th century and even later. The town council and the cofradia provided the contexts within which aboriginal beliefs and practic…
The Tzutujil Mayas
The Tzutujil Mayas
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala
Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period
Ethnohistory of the Pacific Coast
El negro del volcán y El origen del lago Atitlán en Maya-Tzutujil
he first of these texts in the Maya-tzutujil language of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, deals with the adventures of a woman who was abducted by a black devil and hidden inside the volcano of Atitlan. Eventually the evil Itzel Binak is killed thanks to the magic arts of two local witch doctors. The other text is the story of how Lake Atitlan was born, and how certain evil spirits still live there.
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