Maruch Méndez Pérez, Diane Rus

Ch'ul Mut (eBook, ePUB)

Sacred Bird Messengers of the Chamula Maya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tsotsil-Maya elder, curer, singer, and artist Maruch Méndez Pérez began learning about birds as a young shepherdess climbing trees and raiding nests for eggs to satisfy her endless hunger. As she grew into womanhood and apprenticed herself to older women as a curer and seer, the natural history of birds she learned so roughly as a child expanded to include ancestral Maya beliefs about birds as channels of communication with deities in the spirit world who had dominion over human lives. In these testimonies dictated to her lifelong friend, anthropologist Diane Rus, Méndez Pérez describes her years of dreams, instruction, and experience. Her narrative sheds light on the basic values of her Chamula culture and cosmovision and has remarkable parallels to concepts of the ancient Maya as interpreted by scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826365149
• Artikelnr.: 68110427

Autorenporträt

Maruch Méndez Pérez is a weaver, healer, ritual advisor, poet, singer, painter, and ceramicist. She lives in San Juan Chamula in Chiapas, Mexico. Diane Rus is a research fellow in the Instituto de Estudios Indígenas, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, San Cristóbal, Chiapas. Her research interests include Maya family economy, women's work, Maya migration to the United States, bilingual language education, and the history and work of mestizo women of San Cristóbal.