Martin Prechtel
Biographic Data
| ID | 292778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Prechtel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Prechtel |
| SIGNATURE | PRECHTEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Methaphors of Relative Elevation, Position and Ranking in Popol Vuh
This paper is an account of work very much in progress on the textual analysis of Popol Vuh, and is one study among others (since this theme is attracting a number of students today) of inter-connections and mutual illuminations between Popol Vuh and the contemporary ethnographic record in Highland Guatemala and Chiapas. For some considerable time now Popol Vuh has been considered as the major extant text of the Mesoamerican literary traditions, …
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state stea…
The Flowering of the Dead
Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala
The Flowering of the Dead
Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala
Methaphors of Relative Elevation, Position and Ranking in Popol Vuh
This paper is an account of work very much in progress on the textual analysis of Popol Vuh, and is one study among others (since this theme is attracting a number of students today) of inter-connections and mutual illuminations between Popol Vuh and the contemporary ethnographic record in Highland Guatemala and Chiapas. For some considerable time now Popol Vuh has been considered as the major extant text of the Mesoamerican literary traditions, …
Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala
The Flowering of the Dead
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state stea…
Methaphors of Relative Elevation, Position and Ranking in Popol Vuh
This paper is an account of work very much in progress on the textual analysis of Popol Vuh, and is one study among others (since this theme is attracting a number of students today) of inter-connections and mutual illuminations between Popol Vuh and the contemporary ethnographic record in Highland Guatemala and Chiapas. For some considerable time now Popol Vuh has been considered as the major extant text of the Mesoamerican literary traditions, …
Archaeology (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works) · Maya (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work)