The Ch'orti' Maya area; past and present
Reference & Research Book News, Nov, 2009
The Ch'orti' Maya area; past and present.
Metz, Brent E. et al.
U. Press of Florida
2009
346 pages
$69.95
Hardcover
F1465
Epigraphers, archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers contribute to a broad study of people in eastern Guatemala, western Honduran, and northwestern El Salvador, long considered Ladino or non-Maya, but now seeking recognition of their Ch'orti' Mayan heritage and living culture. They cover the Ch'orti' language and its relationship to ancient Mayan, the pre-Columbian history of the Ch'orti' area, the Ch'orti' today, and putting Ch'orti' research in longitudinal context. Specific topics include Maya glyphs written in Ch'olti'an, the classic period immigrants into El Salvador's Zapotita Valley, a Ch'orti' tale about Coyote and Rabbit told by Lorenza Martinez, and producing Ch'orti' ethnography during the Great Depression 1930-40.
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