TY  - GEN
T1  - Rabinal Achi : a Mayan drama of war and sacrifice
T2  - OUP E-Books.
A2  - Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016
LA  - English
LA  - Mayan languages
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm62866095
AB  - 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
OP  - 361
CN  - PM4231.Z95 E5 2003eb
SN  - 1423746384
SN  - 9781423746386
SN  - 1280481293
SN  - 9781280481291
SN  - 9786610481293
SN  - 6610481296
SN  - 9780195139747
SN  - 0195139747
KW  - Rabinal-Achí.
KW  - Rabinal-Achí
KW  - Quiché drama : History and criticism.
KW  - Théâtre quiché : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Native American.
KW  - Quiché drama
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -