Years of Mayan Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID7521757
AuthorsDennis Tedlock (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages480
Publication date2010-01-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Venue2000 Years of Mayan Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520944466
OpenAlexW650462598
ISBN9780520944466
Open LibraryOL29723039M
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock—ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author—draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Literature expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety

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