| Description |
xiv, 478 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: America as the Fourth World -- Pt. I. Text. 1. Provenance. Circum-Caribbean. Mesoamerica. Greater Mexico and Turtle Island. Tahuantinsuyu. Beyond Tahuantinsuyu. 2. Language and its instances. Script and text. Tlacuilolli. Teoamoxtli. Maya hieroglyphs. The case of the quipu. 3. Configurations of space. Maps. Quincunx. Quatrefoil. 4. Configurations of time. Year counts. The Era. Correlation -- Pt. II. Political memory. 5. Peten. Preliminaries. Cities of words. U kahlay katunob. A ciphered heritage. 6. Tollan. Toltec skill. Mexquital Tula. The great Tula. 7. Turtle Island. History and prehistory. Appalachia. The Siouan pipe and its horizons. Northern migrations. 8. Tahuantinsuyu. Locating Inca power. Pasture within its fence. Herders and flocks. The outlaw from Ollantaytambo -- Pt. III. Genesis. 9. Popol vuh. Structure and story. The mud people and the doll people. Seven Parrot and family. Down to Xibalba. The maize people. 10. World ages and metamorphosis |
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Suns of Mesoamerica. Sipapuni. Andean ascent. Flood and food tree. 11. The epic. Heroes and the vision quest. Quetzalcoatl. Maize thrives, traveler fares. The northern trance journey. How human time begins. 12. American cosmos. Convergence at Quiche. Timing. Garden of the planet -- Pt. IV. Into the language of America. 13. The translation process. Source and perspective. Aesop in Aztec. Tawaddud and Maya wit. Faustian Incas. Cinderella between Mapuche and Zuni -- Epilogue: The American palimpsest |
| Analysis |
American Indian literatures |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-458) and index |
| Subject |
Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism.
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Indian literature -- History and criticism.
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Indians.
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| LC no. |
92000981 |
| ISBN |
0521307600 |
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0521314933 (paperback) |
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