Title: Time and the highland Maya /
Authors: Tedlock, Barbara.
Date: 1982
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press,
Physical description: xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC class: F
Contents: Introduction. Philosophical reflections ; The fieldwork -- Momostenango. History ; Ethnography ; Recent changes -- Shamanic priests and priestly shamans. Recruitment of a daykeeper ; Training of a daykeeper ; The initiation and practice of a daykeeper ; Recruitment, training, initiation, and practice of a mother-father ; The wider Quichean context -- The calendar. The divinitory calendar ; The solar calendar -- The day lords. The twenty days ; Implications for a Mayan epigraphy -- The blood speaks. Lightning in the blood ; The red dwarf -- Understanding -- Conclusions.
Notes: Includes index.