Sharonah Esther Fredrick

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru’s lower Andean regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781496236753
• ISBN-10: 1496236750
• Artikelnr.: 70290504

Autorenporträt

Sharonah Esther Fredrick teaches in the College of Charleston’s Department of Hispanic Studies. She is the Colonial Americas editor for Routledge Resources Online—The Renaissance World.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Cosmologies in Collision
1. Political Ambivalence in the Popul Vuh and the Huarochiri Manuscript:
Centuries of Theological Doubt
2. Myth as a Cosmic Weapon: Questioning the Gods
3. Rebellion and the Sovereignty Merry-Go-Round: Uprisings and Cyclical
Notions of Time
4. The Teachings and Ethics of the Huarochiri Manuscript and the Popul Vuh
: Andean and Mayan Legacies
Conclusion: Compassionate Rebellion as a Way of Life
Notes
References
Index