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Telling Maya Tales offers an experimental ethnographic portrait of the San Juan Chamula, the largest and most influential Maya community of Highland Chiapas, in the late twentieth century--the era of the Zapatistas. In this collection of essays, the author, whose field work in the area spans two generations of anthropological thought, explores several expressions of Tzotzil ethnic affirmation,... Read more
Preface --Telling Maya Tales 1. The Other in Chamula Tzotzil Cosmology and History: Reflections of a Kansan in Chiapas 2. True Ancient Words 3. On the Human Condition and the Moral Order 4. Language and Indians' Place in Chiapas 5. The Chamula Festival of Games: Native Macroanalysis and Social Commentary in a Maya Carnival 6. The Topography of Ancient Maya Religious Pluralism: A Dialogue with the Present 7. Indians Inside and Outside of the Mexican National Idea: A Case Study of the Modern Diaspora of San Juan Chamula 8. Life, Death, and Apotheosis of a Chamula Protestant Leader: Biography as Social History 9. From Olmecs to Zapatistas: A Once and Future History of Maya Souls 10. Maya Zapatistas Move to an Open Future
Biography
Gary H. Gossen is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at SUNY, Albany. He is the author of Chamulas in the World of the Sun(1974).
"Gary H. Gossen, a seasoned anthropologist with extensive field experience in Chiapas from the time of the "Harvard Chiapas Project" in the 1960s...offers many pieces of rich ethnography and interesting interpretation." -- Latin American Research Review
