In the ancient Mayan drama Rabinal Achi, a rebel warrior is captured by the ruler of an enemy city-state and faces his certain death at court. In the dialogue that evolves the warrior dances a dance of death, makes psychic leaps to his homeland and demands a series of requests from his captors to reconcile his death far from his homeland. Tedlock presents the first direct translation from Quiche Maya to English of "Rabinal Achi". The significance of the play is great to scholars and to lay persons as a partial history, by ...
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In the ancient Mayan drama Rabinal Achi, a rebel warrior is captured by the ruler of an enemy city-state and faces his certain death at court. In the dialogue that evolves the warrior dances a dance of death, makes psychic leaps to his homeland and demands a series of requests from his captors to reconcile his death far from his homeland. Tedlock presents the first direct translation from Quiche Maya to English of "Rabinal Achi". The significance of the play is great to scholars and to lay persons as a partial history, by Mayans, of their culture, and as a revelation of the ancient ritual and beliefs toward the nature of sacrifice. It is one of the few surviving pieces of Native American drama from the pre-Columbian period in the form of an intact script.
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This is a remarkable book for at least three reasons:
1. It is one of the very few authentic surviving dramas revealing life among the Maya before the Spanish conquest.
2. This edition features a new translation directly from the Mayan language by an award-winning translator whose attention to accuracy has corrected errors and misrepresentations introduced in earlier translations.
3. Dennis Tedlock, the editor and translator, has placed the drama in the context of the growing body of archeological and anthropological research that explains much about Mayan life both before and after the conquest.
This book is essential reading for scholars and lay people interested in a deeper appreciation of one of the world's great civilizations.
