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Excerpt from Synoptic Studies of Mexican CultureThis interrelation with the rest of the nation is seen not only in the content of their culture but also in their participation in the social and political con¿icts of Mexico.National issues which have agitated Mexico in later years have their local manifestation in Tarascan towns. Con¿icts around land and church rage in many Tarascan villages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Los Manitos: A Study of Institutional ValuesFunctional anthropology has been criti cized for reifying society, for reductionism, for failing to explain change, for relativ ism, for its anti-historical bias and for theoretical vagueness. Actually the theory has not stood still long enough for all of these criticisms to be really telling. There has been widespread sensitivity to such strictures, and recent theorists have been most s...

Excerpt from Los Manitos: A Study of Institutional ValuesFunctional anthropology has been criti cized for reifying society, for reductionism, for failing to explain change, for relativ ism, for its anti-historical bias and for theoretical vagueness. Actually the theory has not stood still long enough for all of these criticisms to be really telling. There has been widespread sensitivity to such strictures, and recent theorists have been most s...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Orthographic Note -- I. INTRODUCTION / Edmonson, Munro S. -- II. SOUND SYMBOLISM IN THE MAYAN LANGUAGE FAMILY / Durbin, Marshall E. -- III. SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF YUCATEC DUAL-OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS / Owen, Michael G. -- IV. CHORTÍ SEMANTICS: SOME PROPERTIES OF ROOTS AND AFFIXES / Fought, John G. -- V. THE SEMANTICS OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES IN A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR OF JACALTEC / Day, Christopher -- VI...

Refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it. "The Book of Chilam Balam" was a sacred text prepared by generations of Mayan priests to record the past and to predict the future. This title offers a literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history.

When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Ma...