Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas

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Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas

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Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-06-28

Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-28 with Social Science categories.

Zinacantan, Chamula, and Chenalhó are neighboring Mayan communities situated in highland Chiapas, Mexico, near the city of San Cristóbal Las Casas. The inhabitants of the three communities speak dialects of the Tzotzil language. Five religious fiestas, celebrated by these communities in honor of their saints, provide the data for Victoria Bricker's comparative study of ritual humor. In Chenalhó and Chamula performances of ritual humor are concentrated in the five-day period of a single fiesta, while in Zanacantan similar performances are distributed over threee fiestas. In these fiesta settings, performers in distinctive costumes make obscene and sacreligious remarks in the context of religious ritual. These performances are defined as ritual humor because they occur only in ritual settings. Bricker's study constitutes a controlled cross-cultural comparison of ceremonial or ritual humor in its social and cultural setting. Much new information is provided in verbatim texts, recorded during actual fiesta performances. The study reveals that, although the three communities share a common pool of ritual symbols, they elaborate them differently in ritual humor. The study analyzes the symbolic expression of values, social organization, and interethnic relations.

Analyses Of Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas

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Author : William Woodrow Groves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Analyses Of Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas written by William Woodrow Groves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Indian dance categories.

Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas

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Author : Victoria R. Bricker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Ritual Humor In Highland Chiapas written by Victoria R. Bricker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.

Humor Ritual En La Altiplanicie De Chiapas

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Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
language : es
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
Release Date : 1986

Humor Ritual En La Altiplanicie De Chiapas written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and has been published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.

Trabajo de campo que se realizo en las comunidades mayas de Zinacantan, Chamula y Chenalho, en los Altos de Chiapas. Su particularidad reside en el descubrimiento de un sentido del humor que raya en la irreverencia, pero que forma parte de los rituales sincreticos que han entrado a la tradicion cultural de esos pueblos indigenas.

The Comit N Valley

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Author : Caitlin C. Earley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2023-07-13

The Comit N Valley written by Caitlin C. Earley and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-13 with Art categories.

A thousand years ago, the Comitán Valley, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was the western edge of the Maya world. Far from the famous power centers of the Classic period, the valley has been neglected even by specialists. Here, Caitlin C. Earley offers the first comprehensive study of sculpture excavated from the area, showcasing the sophistication and cultural vigor of a region that has largely been ignored. Supported by the rulers of the valley’s cities, local artists created inventive works that served to construct civic identities. In their depictions of warrior kings, ballgames, rituals, and ancestors, the artists of Comitán made choices that reflected political and religious goals and distinguished the artistic production of the Comitán Valley from that of other Maya locales. After the Maya abandoned their powerful lowland centers, those in Comitán were maintained, a distinction from which Earley draws new insights concerning the Maya collapse. Richly illustrated with never-before-published photographs of sculptures unearthed from key archaeological sites, The Comitán Valley is an illuminating work of art historical recovery and interpretation.

Words Of The True Peoples Palabras De Los Seres Verdaderos

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Author : Carlos Montemayor
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-05-06

Words Of The True Peoples Palabras De Los Seres Verdaderos written by Carlos Montemayor and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with Drama categories.

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the role of theater within indigenous communities. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

Supplement To The Handbook Of Middle American Indians Volume 3

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Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22

Supplement To The Handbook Of Middle American Indians Volume 3 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Social Science categories.

The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was elected to be general editor. This third volume of the Supplement is devoted to the aboriginal literatures of Mesoamerica, a topic receiving little attention in the original Handbook. According to the general editor, "This volume does more than supplement and update the coverage of Middle American Indian literatures in the Handbook. It breaks new ground by defining the parameters of a new interdisciplinary field in Middle American Indian studies." The aim of the present volume is to consider literature from five Middle American Indian languages: Nahuatl, Yucatecan Maya, Quiche, Tzotzil, and Chorti. The first three literatures are well documented for both the Classical and Modern variants of their languages and are obvious candidates for inclusion in this volume. The literatures of Tzotzil and Chorti, on the other hand, are oral, and heretofore little has been written of their genres and styles. Taken together, these essays represent a substantial contribution to the Handbook series, with the volume editor's introduction placing in geographic perspective the five literatures chosen as representative of the Middle American literary tradition.

Supplement To The Handbook Of Middle American Indians Volume 3

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Author : Munro S. Edmonson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1985

Supplement To The Handbook Of Middle American Indians Volume 3 written by Munro S. Edmonson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Social Science categories.

Routledge Library Editions Rural History

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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-14

Routledge Library Editions Rural History written by Various and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with History categories.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

Anthropological Perspectives On Rural Mexico

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Author : Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06

Anthropological Perspectives On Rural Mexico written by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with History categories.

In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the dependency paradigm, to the historical structuralism of the 1970s. This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico, and discusses in stimulating terms the theoretical and empirical difficulties of the profession of anthropology itself.