Mayan tales from Chiapas, Mexico
By: Robert M. Laughlin, with contributions by Francisca Hernández Hernández ; Spanish translation by Socorro Gómez Hernández and Juan Benito de la Torre ; foreword by Gary H. Gossen
Contributors: Hernández Hernández, Francisca, author; Komes Ernantes, Sokoro, 1983- translator; Torre López, Juan Benito de la, 1961- translator
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780826354488; 9780826354495
Subjects: Tales; Mayas; Folklore
Description: "The forty-two stories presented in this book were told to Robert Laughlin in Tzotzil by Francisca Hernández Hernández, an elderly woman known as Doña Pancha, the only speaker of Tzotzil left in the village of San Felipe Ecatepec in Chiapas, Mexico. Laughlin and Doña Pancha's running conversation is the source for the stories, which means they are told in much the same way that stories are told in traditional native settings. Doña Pancha is bilingual in Tzotzil and Spanish, and the stories are presented here in English, Tzotzil, and Spanish. They range from mythological sacred stories to quasi-historical legends to historical accounts of life in the twentieth century." -- from amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265).