2000 Years of Mayan Literature

by Dennis Tedlock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271378
• ISBN13: 9780520271371
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.7"