Download or read book U Janal Aj Maya written by Garcia Aurora Saqui and published by Produccicones de La Hamaca. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U Janal Aj Maya: Traditional Maya Cuisine is a cookbook written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, artist, herbalist, Mayan activist and cook who was born into a Yucatec Maya farming family in Belize. With this book you can learn how to prepare traditional Mayan food from garden to table with recipes that have been passed down through the generations. The cookbook is written in English with the names of the recipes given in Yucatec Maya, Mopan Maya, Creole, and English.
Download or read book Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature written by Rani-Henrik Andersson and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.
Download or read book Itzaj Maya Grammar written by Charles Andrew Hofling and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Itzaj Maya language is member of a the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mopan, and Lakantun. Many Classic Maya hieroglyphic texts were written in an earlier form of these languages, as were many important colonial documents. In addition to being a valuable record of an ancient language, Andrew Hofling's Itzaj Maya Grammar contributes greatly to the study of these older documents. This exemplary grammar completes a basic documentation that began with Itzaj Maya Texts and Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary. Its coverage of the linguistic structures of Itzaj includes the phonological, morphophonological, and syntactic structures. Each morphological and grammatical construction is carefully explained, with additional examples of each construction included. Itzaj Maya Grammar is a landmark contribution to the study of discourse in Maya languages. When used with Hofling's previous texts, it provides a thoroughly dynamic documentation of the language, useful to all interested in the study of Yukatekan languages or linguistics.
Download or read book Telling and Being Told written by Paul M. Worley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analyzing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures. Through performance, storytellers place the past in dynamic relationship with the present, each continually evolving as it is reevaluated and reinterpreted. Yet non-indigenous actors often manipulate the storyteller in their firsthand accounts of the indigenous world. Moreover, by limiting the field of literary study to written texts, Worley argues, critics frequently ignore an important component of Latin America’s history of conquest and colonization: The fact that Europeans consciously set out to destroy indigenous writing systems, making orality a key means of indigenous resistance and cultural continuity. Given these historical factors, outsiders must approach Yucatec Maya and other indigenous literatures on their own terms rather than applying Western models. Although oral literature has been excluded from many literary studies, Worley persuasively demonstrates that it must be included in contemporary analyses of indigenous literatures as oral texts form a key component of contemporary indigenous literatures, and storytellers and storytelling remain vibrant cultural forces in both Yucatec communities and contemporary Yucatec writing.
Download or read book Relatively Speaking written by Eve Danziger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition.
Download or read book Words of the True Peoples Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Frischmann and Montemayor have abundantly annotated the English, Spanish, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that trace the development of indigenous texts, literacy, and writing. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples. The other volumes of this work will be Volume 2: Poetry/Poesía and Volume 3: Theater/Teatro.
Download or read book Maaya t aan junp el written by Javier Gómez Navarrete and published by UQROO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diccionario Maya Mopan Espanol Ingles written by Charles A Hofling and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan) language, providing introductory grammatical description, as well as parts of speech, examples, cross-references, variant forms, homophones, and indexes....
Download or read book False Tongues and Sunday Bread written by Copeland Marks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya—the Indians who inhabited part of Mexico and Central America in pre-Hispanic times—left the modern world a legacy of remarkable cooking that is still practiced in cliffside huts and middle-class haciendas. Copeland Marks has traveled widely throughout Guatemala and other countries that carry the Mayan heritage, in order to introduce us to the everyday pleasures of this little-known cuisine. For anyone who loves the taste of tamales, tortillas, and pungent sauces, this book will provide a rich adventure that begins with—but goes far beyond—those staples of the corn kitchen. The recipes reveal a delightful and accessible cuisine that, in addition to showcasing traditional Mayan flavor profiles, combines culinary ideas from India, Africa, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Spain.
Download or read book Diccionario Maya Itzaj espa ol ingl s written by Charles Andrew Hofling and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over twenty-thousand entries, this reference is of immense value to linguists, anthropologists, epigraphers engaged in deciphering Mayan glyphs, ethnobotanists, and others interested in the Maya. Appendixes present flora and fauna taxonomy and an overview of body parts.
Download or read book Plants of the Pet n Itza Maya written by Scott Atran and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya written by Aurora Garcia Saqui and published by Produccicones de La Hamaca. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya: Maya Herbal Medicine is written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, a well-known natural healer in Belize. She was trained by her grand-uncle, the famous Don Eligio Panti in traditional Maya medicine. A Yucatec Maya who grew up in rural Belize, she is adamant about practicing and conserving her Maya culture, which is reflected in her descriptions of Maya remedies for illnesses and complaints. Included are photos and descriptions of all the plants used in this book of Maya traditional healing.
Download or read book English Maya Lexicon written by Robert Goh and published by Truth Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English > Maya lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. The corresponding Chinese lexicon has a vocabulary of 2,429 characters, 95% of which are in the primary group of 3,500 general standard Chinese characters issued by China's Ministry of Education in 2013.
Download or read book Words of the True Peoples Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous Language Writers Antolog a de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Ind genas de M xico written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations.
Download or read book Morphologies in Contact written by Martine Vanhove and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.
Download or read book Kaloomte Book 1 Vol 2 Yucatec written by E. K. Bolles and published by E. K. Bolles. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U ch’i’ibalil ti’ Mutule’, ku seen ye’esik u ya’ala’al Kaloomte yéetel leti’ob ka’ach u yuumilo’ob ti’ u kaabalil xaman lu’umilo’ob. Ba’ale’ u seeba’an úuch kíimil ti’ le ajawo’ tu k’úubaj u ix-yaalil, Ix Kine’, yéetel u j-yaalil, Wak Chan K’awile’, ti’ u beetbil óolal múul-tuukul ti’ Nacom Báalam. Ka’alilkile’, yaan ka’ach chíichnakil t’aano’ob ku ya’aliko’ob u Kan lu’umil-ajaw ts’o’ok ka’ach u líik’il ti’ úuch u toopol ichil 400 ja’abo’obake’. Jujuntúulile’, u yéet-ba’atelo’ob ti’ Mutul ku chuun u toopol tumen k’uuxtaambal lemáax táan u naats’ikubaj. Je’el wáaj u béeytal ka Mutule’ máana’ak yáanal ti’ u xóot’-nup’bajilo’ob yéetel u kaxtiko’ob kuxtal kex yo’osal le sajbe’entsil táan u ch’éenebil u yoocheliloob ti’ le maya lu’umilo’.Lela u ka’ap’éelil ti’ jo’p’éel múuch’ ts’íib ku taasik u k’aylaj ti’ Mutul beyxan Kan ichil u ba’atelil ti’al u kaxtiko’ob kuxtal yéetel u pets’iko’ob u lu’umil mayae’, beyxan, tu ts’o’okole’, u k’áatiko’ob u ya’ala’al ti’ Kaloomte (Noj-jala’achil).
Download or read book How to Kill a Dragon written by Calvert Watkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition. Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of comparative Indo-European poetics; he explores the Saussurian notions of synchrony and diachrony, and locates the various Indo-European traditions and ideologies of the spoken word. Further, his overview presents case studies on the forms of verbal art, with selected texts drawn from Indic, Iranian, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Armenian, Celtic, and Germanic languages. In the remainder of the book, Watkins examines in detail the structure of the dragon/serpent-slaying myths, which recur in various guises throughout the Indo-European poetic tradition. He finds the "signature" formula for the myth--the divine hero who slays the serpent or overcomes adversaries--occurs in the same linguistic form in a wide range of sources and over millennia, including Old and Middle Iranian holy books, Greek epic, Celtic and Germanic sagas, down to Armenian oral folk epic of the last century. Watkins argues that this formula is the vehicle for the central theme of a proto-text, and a central part of the symbolic culture of speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language: the relation of humans to their universe, the values and expectations of their society. Therefore, he further argues, poetry was a social necessity for Indo- European society, where the poet could confer on patrons what they and their culture valued above all else: "imperishable fame."
