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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 604–605.
Published: 01 August 1970
... poor roster of such cultures in Middle America. The Zotzils will now become an anchor-point in Middle American research, along with the Aztecs, the Yucatees and—the Zapotecs? the Quiche? the Otomi? the Mixtec? The work is hard to capture in 600 words. It is rich, evocative, probably the nearest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Munro S. Edmonson The title of this book refers to the widespread and ancient Mayan belief that the prime purpose of ritual is to feed the gods. As its subtitle implies, the book subjects the rituals of the Zotzil Maya of Zinacantan Chiapas to a “symbolic” analysis. It leans heavily on Turner...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 307–308.
Published: 01 May 1978
... a commendably detailed exegesis of the metaphoric organization of a single twenty-seven-line Zotzil poem from Zinacantan, Chiapas, focusing on the figure of the hummingbird, and dealing at length with the cosmology, culture, and mathematics that constitute a part of the background of this poem. I say a part...