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The Indian Christ, The Indian King. The Historial Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual
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Reifler Bricker, Victoria
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Artículo Disponible
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299.72 B849
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In The Indian Christ, the Indian King, Victoria Reifler Bricker shows that "history" sometimes rests on mythological foundations adn that "myth" can contain valid historical information. Her book, a highly original critique of postconquest historiography about the relationship between myth and history implicit in structuralist interpretations abour the relationship between myth and history implicit in structuralist interpretations of myth. The focus of the book is ethnic conflict, a theme that pervades Maya folklore and is also well documented historically.
The book begins with the Spanish conquest of the Maya. In chapters on the postconquest hisotry of the Maya, five ethnic conflicts are treated in depth: the Cancuc revolt of 1712, the Quisteil upresing of 1761, the Totonicapan rebellion of 1820, the Case War of Yucatan (1847 -1901), and the Chamulan uprising in 1869. Analytical chapters consider the relationship between historical events and modern folklore about ethnic conflict. Bricker demostrates that myths and rituals emphasize structure ate the expense of temporal and geographic provenience, treating events separated by centuries or thousands of miles as equivalent and interchangeable. One unexpected result of Bricker's research is the finding that many seemingly aborifinal elements in Maya folklore are actually of postconquest origin, and she shows that it is possible to determine precisely when and, more important, why they became part of myth and ritual. Furthermore, she finds that the patterning of the accretion of events in folklore over time provides clues to the function, or meaning, of myth and ritual for the Maya. Bricker has made use of many unpublished documents in Spanish, English, and Maya, as well as standard synthetic historical works. The appendices contain extensive samples of the oral traditions that are explained by her analysis. |
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0-292-73824-2
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University of Texas Press
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1981
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United States of America
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Texas
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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24/11/2014
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24/11/2014
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