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The third and final book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos
  • Abbreviations/Abreviaturas
  • Regarding the Indigenous Languages and Alphabets in This Volume/Acerca de los idiomas y alfabetos indígenas de este volumen
  • Theater, Which Once Was Dance / El teatro, que alguna vez fue danza (Carlos Montemayor)
  • A Question of Balance: Indigenous Theater at the Conjunction of Millennia / Buscando el equilibrio: Teatro indígena en la conjunción de milenios (Donald Frischmann)
  • 1. Feliciano Sánchez Chan (Mayan/maya)
    • Keejo'ob
    • Deer
    • Venados
  • 2. Carlos Armando Dzul Ek (Mayan/maya)
    • Bix úuchik u bo'ot ku'si'ip'il "Manilo'ob" tu ja'abil 1562
    • The Maní Inquisition or the Colliding of Two Cultures
    • El auto de fe de Maní o Choque de dos culturas
  • 3. Sna Jtz'ibajom (Tzotzil/tzotzil)
    • Skotol ta skotol
    • From All for All
    • De todos para todos
  • 4. Petrona de la Cruz (Tzotzil/tzotzil)
    • Ilbajinel xchi'uk lekilal ta tz'akal
    • Hell and Hope
    • Infierno y esperanza
  • 5. Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Tzeltal/tzeltal)
    • Mach' atik ya xlok'ik
    • Migration
    • Migración
  • 6. Ildefonso Maya (Nahuatl/náhuatl)
    • Ixtlamatinij
    • The Learned Ones
    • Ixtlamatinij
  • English Glossary
  • Glosario español
  • Sources of the Plays/Fuentes de las obras de teatro

Words of the True PeoplesPalabras de los Seres

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2007
      ISBN13: 9781477315286, 978-1477315286
      ISBN10: 1477315284

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The third and final book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos
      • Abbreviations/Abreviaturas
      • Regarding the Indigenous Languages and Alphabets in This Volume/Acerca de los idiomas y alfabetos indígenas de este volumen
      • Theater, Which Once Was Dance / El teatro, que alguna vez fue danza (Carlos Montemayor)
      • A Question of Balance: Indigenous Theater at the Conjunction of Millennia / Buscando el equilibrio: Teatro indígena en la conjunción de milenios (Donald Frischmann)
      • 1. Feliciano Sánchez Chan (Mayan/maya)
        • Keejo'ob
        • Deer
        • Venados
      • 2. Carlos Armando Dzul Ek (Mayan/maya)
        • Bix úuchik u bo'ot ku'si'ip'il "Manilo'ob" tu ja'abil 1562
        • The Maní Inquisition or the Colliding of Two Cultures
        • El auto de fe de Maní o Choque de dos culturas
      • 3. Sna Jtz'ibajom (Tzotzil/tzotzil)
        • Skotol ta skotol
        • From All for All
        • De todos para todos
      • 4. Petrona de la Cruz (Tzotzil/tzotzil)
        • Ilbajinel xchi'uk lekilal ta tz'akal
        • Hell and Hope
        • Infierno y esperanza
      • 5. Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Tzeltal/tzeltal)
        • Mach' atik ya xlok'ik
        • Migration
        • Migración
      • 6. Ildefonso Maya (Nahuatl/náhuatl)
        • Ixtlamatinij
        • The Learned Ones
        • Ixtlamatinij
      • English Glossary
      • Glosario español
      • Sources of the Plays/Fuentes de las obras de teatro

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