Munro S Edmonson

Biographic Data

ID	77715
NAME	Munro S Edmonson
GIVEN NAMES	Munro S
FAMILY NAME	Edmonson
SIGNATURE	EDMONSON M S
AFFILIATIONS	Tulane University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	75
TOTAL CITATIONS	392
AUTHOR COUNT	74
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2015
H-INDEX	9

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2: Linguistics
John Fought, Paul Friedrich et al.BOOKSupplement to the Handbook of…2015
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology
Richard N Adams, Ralph L Beals et al.BOOKHandbook of Middle American…2015
The Songs of Dzibalche: A Literary Commentary
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLETlalocan2013
La Colección de Cantares de Dzitbalche constituye una muestra extraordinaria de la poesía en lengua maya de Yucatán. En 1965 Alfredo Barrera Vásquez publicó una traducción de estos Cantares al castellano. Aquí Munro S. Edmonson ofrece otra traducción, en este caso al inglés. Al publicarla, reconoce expresamente el valor de la aportación original de Barrera Vásquez. En su presentación Edmonson distribuye de manera distinta los poemas, tomando como…
Los Popol Vuh
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2013
Bajo la rubrica de trabajo en proceso quiero presentar aqu1 en forma preliminar la traducción e interpretación de dos textos mayas, uno del comienzo del Popol Vuh de los quiches y el otro del comienzo del Libro de Chilam Balam de Tizimín de los yucatecos. Mi propósito es demostrar que los dos comparten una estructura literaria típicamente mesoamericana (presente, por ejemplo, también en náhuatl), que es a la vez obstáculo y llave de su clarificac…
Some Postclassic Questions About the Classic Maya
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2013Cited by: 6References: 8
The Postclassic and Colonial texts of the Books of Chilam Balam tell us very little, or so I believe, about the Classic Maya directly. And that little, though very precious, is confined to brief passages in the first three Chronicles, and may have been reshaped to fit the mythological predilections of a later age. The Chronicles being much the best known passages of the Books to Mayanists (Barrera, 1948; Roys 1935), and the events they chronicle …
Las coplas indígenas de México
Open AccessVictoria R Bricker, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECaravelle2001
Our aim is to demonstrate the universality of the use of semantic couplets in the rhetoric of the indigenous languages of Mexico. Textual examples are given in eight representative languages. Five more texts in Yucatec demonstrate the extension of the usage from the classic period to the present time
La lengua maya
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLECaravelle2001
Este bosquejo histórico de los idiomas mayas ofrece un sumario de su evolución, de algunos de sus cambios fonéticos, y de los préstamos lingüísticos que manifiestan. Influencias intercalendáricas, la prestación de nombres de personas y de lugares, y la resistencia maya al náhuatl están enfatizados
La sociedad colonial en Guatemala: Estudios regionales y locales
Munro S Edmonson, Stephen WebreARTICLEEthnohistory1992
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle Americans Indians Vol. 3: Literature
Donald Bahr, Victoria Reifler Bricker et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1990
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Charles Andrew Hofling, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEEthnohistory1989Cited by: 1
Heavenborn Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Gordon Brotherston, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEMan1988Cited by: 6
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Munro S EdmonsonBOOKHeaven Born Merida and Its Destiny1986Cited by: 41
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 2. Linguistics
Charles S Spencer, Victoria Reifler Bricker et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1985
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians: Linguistics, Volume Two
Lyle R Campbell, Lyle Campbell et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1985
Obituay: Marshall E. Durbin (1936-1983)
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1985
Linguistics: Handbook of American Folklore . Richard M. Dorson , ed
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1984
Cultural/Ethnology: Indianische Landrechte in Yukatan um die Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts: Dokumenten‐analyse und Konstruktion von Wirklich‐keitsmodellen am Fall des Landvertrages von Mani. von Frauke J…
Open AccessMunro S Edmonson, Munro EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1983
Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply]
Harvey M Bricker, Victoria R Bricker et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1983Cited by: 8
Work by earlier scholars has shown that the Dresden Codex contains a table of temporal intervals appropriate to the cyclic occurrence of solar eclipses. This paper demonstrates that if the Maya calendrical dates in the table are converted to the Gregorian calendar by using the so-called Modified Thompson 2 correlation constant, the table gives very accurate warnings of solar eclipses for the late-8th-century A.D. span to which it refers. During t…
The Codex Perez and the Book of Chilam Balam of Mani
Munro S Edmonson, Eugene R Craine et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1981
The Codex Pérez and The Book of Chilam Balam of Maní
Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1981
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
Alvar Ellegård, Anthony F Aveni et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1981Cited by: 1
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
On the Day in Mexican Myth and Ritual
Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECurrent Anthropology1981
The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion. FRANCIS Robicsek
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1980
Quiché Rebelde: Estudio de un movimiento de conversión rellglosa, rebelde a las creenclas tradicionales, en San Antonio IIotenango, Quiché (1948-1970). Ricardo Falla
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1980
In the Shadow of Tlaloc: Life in a Mexican Village
Munro S Edmonson, Gregory G ReckARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1980

Proxemics [and Comments and Replies]
Edward T Hall, Everette Hall et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1968Cited by: 89References: 9
Virtually everything that man is and does is associated with space. Man's sense of space is a synthesis of many sensory inputs: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and thermal. Not only does each of these constitute a complex system (as for example, the dozen or more different ways of experiencing depth visually), but each is molded and patterned by culture. Hence people reared in different cultures live in different sensory worlds. What is…
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
James Fernandez, James W Fernandez et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1974Cited by: 88
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
The Book of Counsel: The Popol Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala
Michael D Coe, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1975Cited by: 45
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Munro S EdmonsonBOOKHeaven Born Merida and Its Destiny1986Cited by: 41
Neolithic Diffusion Rates
Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECurrent Anthropology1961Cited by: 14References: 4
Anthropological Theory, Cultural Pluralism, and the Study of Complex Societies [and Comments and Reply]
Leo A Despres, Michael Banton et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1968Cited by: 13
In this essay I have taken issue with the view that a special kind of anthropology is needed if anthropologists are to make a contribution to the study of complex societies. This point of view appears to represent a response to conditions which have prevailed more or less since the end of the World War II: instability in the newly emerging nations and the availability of funds for the application of social science to the solution of human problem…
Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honour of Sir Eric Thompson
Munro S Edmonson, Norman HammondARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1979Cited by: 12
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Mary Douglas, Munro S Edmonson et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1978Cited by: 12References: 6
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change.…
Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives
Munro S Edmonson, Norman E Whitten et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1972Cited by: 11
The Transformation of the Hummingbird: Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Mythical Poem
Munro S Edmonson, E K Hunt et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1978Cited by: 9
Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Work of Sahagún
Ellen Taylor Baird, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1976Cited by: 9
Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply]
Harvey M Bricker, Victoria R Bricker et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1983Cited by: 8
Work by earlier scholars has shown that the Dresden Codex contains a table of temporal intervals appropriate to the cyclic occurrence of solar eclipses. This paper demonstrates that if the Maya calendrical dates in the table are converted to the Gregorian calendar by using the so-called Modified Thompson 2 correlation constant, the table gives very accurate warnings of solar eclipses for the late-8th-century A.D. span to which it refers. During t…
Kinship Terms and Kinship Concepts
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1957Cited by: 7References: 19
Some Postclassic Questions About the Classic Maya
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2013Cited by: 6References: 8
The Postclassic and Colonial texts of the Books of Chilam Balam tell us very little, or so I believe, about the Classic Maya directly. And that little, though very precious, is confined to brief passages in the first three Chronicles, and may have been reshaped to fit the mythological predilections of a later age. The Chronicles being much the best known passages of the Books to Mayanists (Barrera, 1948; Roys 1935), and the events they chronicle …
Heavenborn Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Gordon Brotherston, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEMan1988Cited by: 6
Carnival in New Orleans
Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1956Cited by: 5
The Eighth Generation: Cultures and Personalities of New Orleans Negroes
Frank Miyamoto, S Frank Miyamoto et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1960Cited by: 4
A Measurement of Relative Racial Difference
Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECurrent Anthropology1965Cited by: 3References: 6
A method is proposed for relating genetic frequency data to racial and linguistic indicators of human breeding history. The method permits full recognition of the role of natural selection and differential interbreeding in determining the distribution of racial characteristics in modern man, and additionally suggests a direction of approach to the reconstruction of the history of particular gene systems
General and Theoretical: Mythologiques: L'Homme nu. CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1973Cited by: 2References: 5
General and Theoretical: Murngin, A Mathematical Solution. PINHSIUNG LIU
Open AccessMunro S EdmonsonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1972Cited by: 2References: 17
Flower in My Ear: Arts and Ethos of Ifaluk Atoll
Open AccessMunro S Edmonson, Edwin Grant BurrowsARTICLEWestern Folklore1964Cited by: 2
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
Charles Andrew Hofling, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLEEthnohistory1989Cited by: 1
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
Alvar Ellegård, Anthony F Aveni et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1981Cited by: 1
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction
Open AccessElliott Oring, Jan Harold Brunvand et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1973Cited by: 1
On 'A Measurement of Relative Racial Difference
Joseph B Birdsell, Munro S EdmonsonARTICLECurrent Anthropology1966Cited by: 1