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Telling Maya Tales" offers a reflexive, multi-scenario account of the Chamula Tzotzils of Chiapas, Mexico, in the era of the Zapatistas, Protestants, and NAFTA. The author actually tells two closely interwoven tales, the first of which involves San Juan Chamula, whose many colonies constitute the largest and most influential Maya community of Highland Chiapas. Through their stories, ritual dramas and political action, various expressions of th...

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Four Creations is a collection of seventy-four stories told to Gary H. Gossen by Tzotzil Maya storytellers in San Juan Chamula, Mexico. Spanning four cycles of creations, destructions, and restorations from the dawn of cosmic order to the present era, this epic history reveals a distinctly Maya vision of the universe, grand in scope yet leavened with local humor, irony, and the Tzotzil narrators' own critical commentaries.This story -- like al...

diverse spiritual traditions that have evolved in South and Central America and the Caribbean, since their first violent encounter with Europeans in the 16th century. Illustrations.