Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel【電子書籍】[ Munro S. Edmonson ]

＜p＞When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. ＜em＞The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel＜/em＞ is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Mayas, and it contains much information not available from Spanish sources because it was part of an underground resistance movement of which the Spanish were largely unaware.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Well known to Mayanists, ＜em＞The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel＜/em＞ is presented here in Munro S. Edmonson's English translation, extensively annotated. Edmonson reinterprets the book as literature and as history, placing it in chronological order and translating it as poetry. The ritual nature of Mayan history clearly emerges and casts new light on Mexic．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る