Land, politics, and memory in five Nija'ib' K'iche' títulos : "The title and proof of our ancestors" /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Matsumoto, Mallory, compiler, author, translator.
Imprint:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xxii, 423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English Mayan Latin
Subject:	Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- Texts. Quiché language -- Transcription. Oral history -- Guatemala. Indian literature -- Guatemala. Indian literature. Oral history. Quiché Indians. Guatemala. Texts.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11001475

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Varying Form of Title:	Title and proof of our ancestors
ISBN:	9781607326045 1607326043 9781607327431 1607327430 9781607326052
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Five highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century by the Nija'ib K'iche' of Guatemala. Each manuscript provides a copy of the original, a transcription of the sixteenth-century modified Latin script, a morphologic analysis, a line-by-line English translation preserving the original syntax, and English prose versions"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Títulos in colonial Mesoamerica and their highland Guatemalan context
The Nija'ib' títulos : history, contents, and current state of research
Rewriting the títulos : philological and linguistic methodology for preparing the publication
Scribal practice in the Nija'ib' títulos
Appendices : Orthographic correspondence tables for the Nija'ib' títulos
The Nija'ib' títulos in Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscript No. 101 : Utitulo rajawarem ajaw Don Francisco Iskin Nija'ib' (folios 1r-v). Utitulo ulew rech ajaw Don Francisco Iskin Nija'ib' (folios 9r-9v, 10v). Inpormacion chi rij título (folio 10r). Titulo Iskin rech Quetzaltenango, Momostenango (folio 11r). Título de Quetzaltenango y Momostenango y conquistas de nuestros antepasados (folios 15r-22r).

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