The Dog Who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales
El perro que habló y más cuentos mayas
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
282 Pages | 6 x 9 | 16 b&w illus., 2 maps
$24.95
Edited by James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
282 Pages | 6 x 9 | 16 b&w illus., 2 maps
$24.95
James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía allow the thirty-three stories to speak for themselves—first in the original Spanish and then in English translations that maintain the meaning and rural inflection of the originals. Available in print for the first time, with a glossary of Indian and Spanish terms, these Guatemalan folktales represent generations of transmitted oral culture that is fast disappearing and deserves a wider audience.
James D. Sexton, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, is author of Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala and translator and editor of Joseño: Another Mayan Voice Speaks from Guatemala.
Fredy Rodr¡guez-Mej¡a (part Ch?orti? Maya), from Cop n Ruinas, Honduras, is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Michigan State University, East Lansing.
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