2000 Years Of Mayan Literature Dennis Tedlock by Dennis Tedlock 9780520232211, 0520232216 instant download after payment.

Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an
astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the
present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey,
from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later
writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock—ethnographer, linguist,
poet, and award-winning author—draws on decades of living and working
among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first
to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts
chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient
writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of
gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Literature expands our understanding and
appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American
literature in its entirety.