Popol Wuj
DOWNLOAD
Download Popol Wuj PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Popol Wuj book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Reading Popol Wuj
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nathan C. Henne
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Reading Popol Wuj written by Nathan C. Henne and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Social Science categories.
Popol Wujis considered one of the oldest books in the Americas. Various elements of Popol Wuj have appeared in different written forms over the last two millennia and several parts of Popol Wuj likely coalesced in hieroglyphic book form a few centuries before contact with Europeans. Popol Wuj offers a unique interpretation of the Maya world and ways of being from a Maya perspective. However, that perspective is often occluded since the extant Popol Wuj is likely a copy of a copy of a precontact Indigenous text that has been translated many times since the fifteenth century. Reading Popol Wujoffers readers a path to look beyond Western constructions of literature to engage with this text through the philosophical foundation of Maya thought and culture. This guide deconstructs various translations to ask readers to break out of the colonial mold in approaching this seminal Maya text. Popol Wuj, or Popol Vuh, in its modern form, can be divided thematically into three parts: cosmogony (the formation of the world), tales of the beings who inhabited the Earth before the coming of people, and chronicles of different ethnic Maya groups in the Guatemala area. Examining thirteen translations of the K’iche’ text, Henne offers a decolonial framework to read between what translations offer via specific practice exercises for reading, studying, and teaching. Each chapter provides a close reading and analysis of a different critical scene based on a comparison of several translations (English and Spanish) of a key K’iche’ word or phrase in order to uncover important philosophical elements of Maya worldviews that resist precise expression in Indo-European languages. Charts and passages are frontloaded in each chapter so the reader engages in the comparative process before reading any leading arguments. This approach challenges traditional Western reading practices and enables scholars and students to read Popol Wuj—and other Indigenous texts—from within the worldview that created them.
Popol Wuj
DOWNLOAD
Author : Luis Enrique Sam Colop
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Popol Wuj written by Luis Enrique Sam Colop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The Popol Vuh
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: Milkweed+ORM
Release Date : 2018-10-09
The Popol Vuh written by and has been published by Milkweed+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Poetry categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas. Originally sung and chanted, before being translated into prose—and now, for the first time, translated back into verse by Michael Bazzett—this is a story of the generative power of language. A story that asks not only Where did you come from? but How might you live again? A story that, for the first time in English, lives fully as “the phonetic rendering of a living pulse.” By turns poetic and lucid, sinuous and accessible, this striking new translation of The Popol Vuh—the first in the Seedbank series of world literature—breathes new life into an essential tale.
Popol Vuh
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-09
Popol Vuh written by and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-09 with Religion categories.
The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis. Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is uniquely faithful to the original language. Retaining the poetic style of the original text, the translation is also remarkably accessible to English readers. Illustrated with more than eighty drawings, photographs, and maps, Allen J. Christenson’s authoritative version brings out the richness and elegance of this sublime work of literature, comparable to such epic masterpieces as the Ramayana and Mahabharata of India or the Iliad and Odyssey of Greece.
Emergency
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edgar Garcia
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-04-21
Emergency written by Edgar Garcia and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-21 with History categories.
Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world’s creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh—while implicated in deep social crisis—nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation.
Popol Wuj
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Popol Wuj written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Indians of Central America categories.
Popol Vuh
DOWNLOAD
Author : Dennis Tedlock
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2017
Popol Vuh written by Dennis Tedlock and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Quiché Indians categories.
The Popol Vuh
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lewis Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-06
The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06 with History categories.
The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Popol Vuh P
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adrián Recinos
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1950
Popol Vuh P written by Adrián Recinos and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first complete version in English of the "Book of the People" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian America is in many ways comparable to the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh, in fact, corresponds to our Christian Bible, and it is, moreover, the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest. The Popol Vuh was first transcribed in the Quiche language, ·but in Latin characters, in the middle of the sixteenth century, by some unknown but highly literate Quiche Maya Indian-probably from the oral traditions of his people. This now lost manuscript was copied at the end of the seventeenth century by Father Francisco Ximénez, then parish priest of the village of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango in the highlands of Guatemala, today the most celebrated and best-known Indian town in all of Central America. The mythology, traditions, cosmogony, and history of the Quiché Maya, including the chronology of their kings down to 1550, are related in simple yet literary style by the Indian chronicler. And Adrian Recinos has made a valuable contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of the document through his thorough going introduction and his identification of places and people in the footnotes.
Popol Vuh
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Popol Vuh written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.