Voices of the first America
Subtitle: text and context in the new world
Series: New scholar -- 10
Publisher: New Scholar
Published: 1986
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Folklore; Poetry; Indians of Central America; Legends; Indians of South America; Music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The hero twins / Helen Carr; title: Tula / Gordon Brotherson; title: Quetzalcoatl and the agon of time / Willard Gingerich; title: The image of Tenochtitlan in the Aztec literary tradition / Rudolf van Zantwijk; title: Poetics of the Aztecs; title: / Richard Haley; title: Irrepressible sorcerers / Arthur J.O. Anderson, Inés M. Talamantez; title: The esoteric and literary language of Don Joan Canul in the Ritual of the Bacabs / Ramón Arzápalo Marín; title: Balam Dz'ib / Richard N. Luxton; title: Visual mediation in the transition from oral to written expression / Rolena Adorno; title: Life stories among the Mocho / Perla Petrich; title: The wayno in Andean civilization / Abdón Yaranga Valderrama.