wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Time and the Highland Maya
ISBN: 9780826313584 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quich Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade. The Classic Mayan obsession with time has never been better known. Here, Barbara Tedlock redirects our attention to the present-day keepers of the ancient calendar. Combining anthropology with formal apprenticeship to a diviner, she refutes long-held ethnographic assumptions and opens a door to the order of the Mayan cosmos and its daily ritual. Unable to visit...
Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quich Indians of highland Gua...
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188,13 zł |
Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
ISBN: 9780933452817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by people from New Guinea to the Andes. The authors take a major step toward moving the study of dreaming from the margins to the mainstream of anthropological thought.
The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shar... |
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188,13 zł |
2000 Years of Mayan Literature
ISBN: 9780520271371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock--ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author--draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women...
Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, f...
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200,27 zł |
The Dialogic Emergence of Culture
ISBN: 9780252064432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,15 zł |
The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Encounters with the Zuni Indians
ISBN: 9780826323422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on over twenty years' research at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, this honest and respectful book takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allows us to witness the world through its members' eyes. We see the joys of love, marriage, and childbirth and the tragedies of illness, alcoholism, and death. We rediscover the South-western landscape, its plants and wildlife, in light of traditional Zuni teachings. 'The Beautiful and the Dangerous' was originally published in 1992.
Based on over twenty years' research at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, this honest and respectful book takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allo...
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188,13 zł |
Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of
ISBN: 9780684818450 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan lords who founded the Quiche kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed into the Roman alphabet in the sixteenth century.
This new edition of Dennis Tedlock's unabridged, widely praised translation includes new notes and... Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extra...
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82,35 zł |
An Archaeology of Architecture: Photowriting the Built Environment
ISBN: 9780826353054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. It may be true enough that a photograph can show more than words can say, but it is equally true that words can say more than a photograph can show. A third space opens up in the middle, where the viewer-reader can look back and forth between image and text at will.Tedlock looks at the built world with the eye of an...
Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock...
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216,83 zł |
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
ISBN: 9780812211436 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all... |
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156,46 zł |
Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780195139754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh.
The first direct translation into English from Quiche Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of city-states, war, and nobility, of diplomacy, mysticism, and psychic journeys. Dennis Tedlock's translation is clear and vivid; more than that, it is rooted in an understanding of how the play is actually performed. Despite being banned for centuries by Spanish... Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the S...
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112,51 zł |
Understanding Marketing & Technology Without Losing Your Mind: A Practical Guide for Managers and Leaders
ISBN: 9780615762616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,41 zł |
Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya
ISBN: 9780826318237 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This remarkable book lets readers hear Maya myths as they are told today in the mountains of Guatemala. First published in 1993, Breath on the Mirror is now available only from UNM Press. "A fascinating literary and anthropological excursion into the mental universe of the modern Quiche Maya and their forebears. The stories and myths so compellingly recounted here turn our own world upside-down and remake it in the Maya image. Reading this, one can understand why and how Maya culture has survived five centuries of oppression."--Michael D. Coe, Yale University, author of... This remarkable book lets readers hear Maya myths as they are told today in the mountains of Guatemala. First published in 1993, Breath on the M... |
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157,77 zł |
The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
ISBN: 9780553379716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A distinguished anthropologist-who is also an initiated shaman-reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world's oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.
Shamanism was not only humankind's first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock's provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock-herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and... A distinguished anthropologist-who is also an initiated shaman-reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world's oldest form of religion and medicin...
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78,06 zł |
The Olson Codex: Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs
ISBN: 9780826357182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910 1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. Olson spent six months in the Yucatan in 1951 studying Maya culture and language, an interlude that has been largely overlooked by students of his work. Like Olson and Robert Creeley, Olson s disciple who published Olson s letters from Mexico, the poet Dennis Tedlock taught at the University of Buffalo. Unlike his two predecessors, Tedlock was also a scholar of Maya language and culture, renowned for his translations from... This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910 1970) is an important document in the histo... |
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248,84 zł |
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy
ISBN: 9780871401465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's "Career of the Medicine Man." The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's "American Indian Model of the Universe" and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian's stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled "The Clown's Way" and "An American...
This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. ...
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103,86 zł |
Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller
ISBN: 9780803294400 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction. Dennis Tedlock is James H. McNulty Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya.
This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface an...
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125,15 zł |