ISBN: 091530693X
Author: Victor Montejo,Wallace Kaufman
Language: English
Publisher: Curbstone Press; 1st edition (July 1, 1995)
Pages: 120
Category: Social Sciences
Subcategory: Politics
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 200
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Bird Who Cleans the W. .The Bird Who Cleans the World: And Other Mayan Fables. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is very interested in knowing more about Mayan cosmology, morals, and their relationship with the environment.
Bird Who Cleans the W. 061385831X (ISBN13: 9780613858311). Some of these fables were soo good! Very quick to read book.
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Home Browse Books Book details, The Bird Who Cleans the World: And Other Mayan. By Victor Montejo, Wallace Kaufman. Victor Montejo himself is a bearer of Jakaltek Maya knowledge and wisdom, a perceptive man who brings contemporary Maya experience and thought to life through his work. He is trilingual and tricultural.
Told here for the first time in English and illustrated with Mayan images, these stories and fables speak eloquently of an ancient culture, at once preserving its history and recreating its tradition.
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ISBN13:9781880684030.
Told here for the first time in English and illustrated with Mayan images, these stories and fables speak eloquently of an ancient culture, at once preserving its history and recreating its tradition
Told here for the first time in English and illustrated with Mayan images, these stories and fables speak eloquently of an ancient culture, at once preserving its history and recreating its tradition. The Bird Who Cleans the World and other Mayan Fables is collection of Jakaltek Mayan folktales, first told to the author by his mother and the elders of his Guatemalan village. They deal with the themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts.
The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables: ISBN 9781880684030 .
The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables: ISBN 9781880684030 (978-1-880684-03-0) Softcover, Curbstone Books, 1995. Bird Who Cleans the World: And Other Myan Fables. ISBN 9780613858311 (978-0-613-85831-1) Hardcover, Sagebrush Education Resources, 1992. El Q'anil: Man of Lightning (Sun Tracks).
Víctor Montejo, a Jakaltek Maya, is Chair of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. His other books include The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables and Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History. Victor Montejo (1 Titles). The University of Arizona Press publishes the work of leading scholars from around the globe. Learn more about submitting a proposal, preparing your final manuscript, and publication. The University of Arizona Press is proud.
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the title short story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood tales. The Merry Men. Will O' the Mill. The Treasure of Franchard.
ISBN 0-520-22612-7 The Bird Who Cleans the World & Other Mayan Fables; Victor Montejo, Curbstone Press, ISBN 1-880684-03-9 Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth; James Sexton & Ignacio Bizarro Ujpan, Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN 1560987707 Mayan Folktales: Folklore.
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