The Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in Indiatown presents the experiences of these traditional people, their adaptations to life in the US, and the ways they preserve their ancestral culture.
The Maya are the single largest group of indigenous people living in North and Central America. This ethnography of Mayan immigrants who settled in In...
"Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yama, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan Burns, anthropologist and linguist, as he began one story that found its way into this book.
Paulino Yama was just one of several master storytellers from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico from whom Burns learned not only the Mayan language but also the style and performance of myths, stories, riddles, prayers, and other forms of speech of their people. The result is An Epoch of Miracles, a wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set...
"Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yama, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan ...
