Rabinal Achi : a Mayan drama of war and sacrifice / translated and interpreted by Dennis Tedlock.

Contributor(s):

Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Mayan languages Series: OUP E-BooksPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 361 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1423746384
9781423746386
1280481293
9781280481291
9786610481293
6610481296
9780195139747
0195139747

Uniform titles:

Rabinal-Achí. English.

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rabinal Achi.DDC classification:

897/.423 22

LOC classification:

PM4231.Z95 E5 2003eb

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Contents:

Part 1: Rabinal Achi or dance of the trumpets -- Part 2: Mayan history onstage and behind the scenes -- Chapter 1: Kings and captives -- Chapter 2: History as a performing art -- Chapter 3: Under Spanish rule -- Chapter 4: Scripts and voices -- Chapter 5: The play enacted.

Summary: In the ancient Mayan drama Rabinal Achi, a rebel warrior is captured by the ruler of an enemy city-state and faces his certain death at court. In the dialogue that evolves the warrior dances a dance of death, makes psychic leaps to his homeland and demands a series of requests from his captors to reconcile his death far from his homeland. Tedlock presents the first direct translation from Quiche Maya to English of "Rabinal Achi". The significance of the play is great to scholars and to lay persons as a partial history, by Mayans, of their culture, and as a revelation of the ancient ritual and beliefs toward the nature of sacrifice. It is one of the few surviving pieces of Native American drama from the pre-Columbian period in the form of an intact script.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361).

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In the ancient Mayan drama Rabinal Achi, a rebel warrior is captured by the ruler of an enemy city-state and faces his certain death at court. In the dialogue that evolves the warrior dances a dance of death, makes psychic leaps to his homeland and demands a series of requests from his captors to reconcile his death far from his homeland. Tedlock presents the first direct translation from Quiche Maya to English of "Rabinal Achi". The significance of the play is great to scholars and to lay persons as a partial history, by Mayans, of their culture, and as a revelation of the ancient ritual and beliefs toward the nature of sacrifice. It is one of the few surviving pieces of Native American drama from the pre-Columbian period in the form of an intact script.

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