商品簡介
"we learn what happens when a dog's master magically transforms into a dog-man who reasons like a man but acts like a dog. This and the other Mayan folktales in this bilingual collection brim with the enchanting creativity of rural Guatemala's oral culture. In addition to stories about ghosts and humans turning into animals. the volume also offers humorous yarns. Hailing from the Lake Atitlan region in the Guatemalan highlands. these tales reflect the dynamics of, and conflicts between, Guatemala's Indian. Ladino, and white cultures. The animals, humans, and supernatural forces that figure in these stories represent Mayan cultural values. social mores. and history." "James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia 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 cultural that is fast disappearing and deserves a wider audience."--BOOK JACKET.
作者簡介
James D. Sexton. Regents' Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, is author of Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitian. Guatemala and translator and editor of Joseno: Another Mayan Voice Speaks from Guatemala.
Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia (part Ch'orti' Maya), from Copan Ruinas. Honduras, is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Michigan State University. East Lansing.
Storyteller Pedro Cholotio Temo (Tz'utujil Maya) lives in San Juan la Laguna. Guatemala.
Alberto Barreno (half Kaqchikel Maya). who has provided Sexton with nearly two hundred Mayan folktales. lives in Panajachel. Guatemala
