...Paul Sullivan By Gary H. Gossen. (New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxiii + 309 pp., preface,illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth.) 2000 Book Reviews Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico. By Gary H...

... with their long-time Chamula collaborator Salvador Guzmán Bakbolom, reshaped INAREMAC’s agenda. Native writers at the institute’s Tzotzil Workshop focused on their own lived experience: working on coffee fincas or in starvation-sized highland cornfields, struggling against ladino landowners, forming...

..., and many Tzeltal and Tzotzil indigenous communities, the INI employed bilingual indigenous “cultural promoters” to negotiate its programs in education, road construction, and public health. As it turns out, the INI's most innovative negotiating tool was a bilingual hand-puppet troupe, the Teatro Petul...

... of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration . Berkeley : University of California Press . Guiteras Holmes Calixta 1961 Perils of the Soul: The World View of a Tzotzil Indian . New York : Free Press of Glencoe . Haskett Robert 1991 Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory...

...’, department Alta Verapaz) write on Maya groups in highland Guatemala. Gossen (Tzotzil Maya, town of San Juan Chamula) and Hervik (Yucatec Maya, town of Oxkutzcab), mean- while, look at Mexican contexts. The former deals with a highland commu- nity (Chiapas) while the latter—much like McClusky’s work...

..., and death, located in his second chapter. Here he successfully reconciles ancient Maya belief systems with evidence taken from ethnographic studies of con- temporary Maya populations such as the Tzotzil. He demonstrates a clear relationship between recorded belief systems and the epigraphy...

.... They do not face the photographer, but rather gaze smiling, perhaps laughing, to their right. A caption dates the photograph (see the cover image) to 1955, places it at San Juan Chamula, a Tzotzil town in the Chiapas highlands, and specifies that it was taken in the course of an anti...

... lexicographers, normally missionaries, who produced a host of dictionaries of Nahuatl, Otomi, Matlatzinca, P’urhépecha, Quechua, Zapotec, Maya (Cakchiquel, Tzotzil, Yucatec, and Tzeltal), Mixtec, Aymara, and Tagalog; the chapter also covers a few Old World adaptations of the Dictionarium in Arabic, English...

... region. Particularly helpful is their grounding of the legend of Votan in real history. Most ethnographies and histories of Chiapas Maya peoples concern highland Tzotzil and Tzeltal groups, so the coverage in this book of the Ch’ol is a particularly important and novel contribution to Chiapas history...

... and the Recolonization of Highland Chiapas, Mexico: Indian Communities and Plantation Labor, 1892-1912. In The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989 . William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Steven Topik, eds. Pp. 257 -85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004 Rereading Tzotzil...

...’ -, k’axtok’ - “deceive; lie,” Basseta 2005 : 150, 447, 368; Coto 1983 [1656]: 189; cf. Tzotzil jtasley-k’optay , jcha’lom k’optay “deceive with words or good appearances,” Laughlin 1988 : 690; Yucatec k’utstah “bamboozle; boast; deceive; (mis)lead with lies,” tus “lie; pretend; deceive,” Barrera...

..., chol, tzotzil, tzendal, chanabal, zoque, subinha, chiapaneca, mam, cabécar, viceyta, lean, mulia y térraba. Vozes de los Ydiomas Cabecara, Viceyta, y Jicaques correspondíentes â las Españolas.Words of the Cabecera, Viceyta, and Xicaque languages with corresponding Spanish words...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...

... today (15). Rojas González’s final essay, ‘‘Los Tzotziles de Chiapas was a pioneering study of regional ethnography at a time when Mexican anthro- pologists were producing microstudies of single communities. He exam- ined...