Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Subtitle: sundries from Zinacantán
By: Robert M. Laughlin.
Series: Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ;; no. 25
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Tzotzil Indians; Tzotzil language -- Texts; United States -- Description and travel; Zinacantán (Mexico) -- Social life and customs
Description: Part 1 contains the travel of two Mayan Indians from Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico, who accompanied the author to the United States in 1963 and again in 1967; part 2 is a miscellany of ethnographic text supplied by Romin Teratol, one of the travelers, in response to the author's occasional requests for re-creations of Zinacantec dialogue and activities.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 285.