South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico, has never before been written down, but today's older generations preserve the vast knowledge of their cultural heritage in speech. Collected and recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec traditions, oral literature, and daily life.
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South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico, has never before been written down, but today's older generations preserve the vast knowledge of their cultural heritage in speech. Collected and recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec traditions, oral literature, and daily life.
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