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Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Mayaby Dennis TedlockISBN 0062509012 (0-06-250901-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya'Book summary:This remarkable book lets readers hear Maya myths as they are told today in the mountains of Guatemala. First published in 1993, Breath on the Mirror is now available only from UNM Press.
"A fascinating literary and anthropological excursion into the mental universe of the modern Quiché Maya and their forebears. The stories and myths so compellingly recounted here turn our own world upside-down and remake it in the Maya image. Reading this, one can understand why and how Maya culture has survived five centuries of oppression."--Michael D. Coe, Yale University, author of The Maya
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Days from a Dream Almanacby Dennis TedlockISBN 025206092X (0-252-06092-X)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Dialogic Emergence of Cultureby Dennis Tedlock , Bruce MannheimISBN 0252064437 (0-252-06443-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Mayaby Dennis Tedlock , Bruce MannheimISBN 0292720378 (0-292-72037-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indiansby Dennis TedlockISBN 080329400X (0-8032-9400-X)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storytellerby Dennis TedlockISBN 0803244398 (0-8032-4439-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Games of the North American Indiansby Dennis TedlockISBN 0803263570 (0-8032-6357-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Games of the North American Indians: Games of Skillby Dennis TedlockISBN 0803263554 (0-8032-6355-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Games of the North American Indians: Games of Chance'Book summary:Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types.[via]Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice. Culin was able to show that the games of North American tribes were remarkably similar in method and purpose. He found that games using dice of various materialswood, cane, bone, animal teeth, fruit stonesexisted among 130 tribes belonging to 30 linguistic groups. The games are described in detail in this volume, and so are the popular guessing games drawing on sticks and wooden disks and involving hidden objects.
Volume 2 is just as absorbing in its elaboration of skills like archery and games like snow-snake, in which darts or javelins were hurled over snow or ice. Played throughout the continent north of Mexico were the hoop and pole game and its miniature, solitaire form called ring and pin, here illustrated. With equal authority Culin discusses ball games: racket, shinny, football, and hot ball. He includes accounts of "minor amusements": shuttlecock, tipcat, quoits, popgun, bean shooter, and cat's cradle.
Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture still only rarely shown. An experienced observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the author of books about games in other cultures.
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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kingsby Dennis TedlockISBN 067145241X (0-671-45241-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Lifeby Dennis TedlockISBN 0684818450 (0-684-81845-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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This new edition of Dennis Tedlock's unabridged, widely praised translation includes new notes and commentary, newly translated passages, newly deciphered hieroglyphs, and over forty new illustrations. [via]
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Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrificeby Dennis TedlockISBN 0195139755 (0-19-513975-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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