{"id":657,"date":"2024-06-05T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/?p=657"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:00:43","slug":"thursday-6-6-oral-literature-of-the-maya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/2024\/06\/05\/thursday-6-6-oral-literature-of-the-maya\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 6\/6: Oral Literature of the Maya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For Thursday, please read these short selections from the volume An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

p. 48\u201361: \u201cThe Epoch of Miracles,\u201d \u201cThe Story of the Hunchbacks\u201d
p. 62: “Santo Muerte”
p. 66\u201370: \u201cJesus Christ\u201d
p. 74\u201379: \u201cThe History of Don Francisco Xiu\u201d
p. 121: “An Orpheus Story”
p. 135\u2013139: \u201cJust Things That Frighten One,\u201d \u201cWizards\u201d
p. 152: \u201cA Story about a Trickster and a Priest\u201d
p. 233: \u201cThe Joke about an Old Man Who Went to M\u00e9rida for a Year\u201d
p. 238\u2013244: \u201cDefinitions\u201d
p. 244\u2013257: \u201cThe Last Story of the Feathered Serpent\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you read, please think about the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. How is the Maya cosmovision reflected in these stories?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How do pre-Hispanic and Christian belief systems combine in these stories?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Where do you see traces of the colonial experience?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. How is Maya identity approached in these tales? (Think especially about “The Old Man Who Went to M\u00e9rida” joke.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Which story or definition interested you most, and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. What do you think about the ethnographer’s short statement before “The Last Story of the Feathered Serpent”?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Download An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Visit this page to watch Maya oral performance<\/a>. The author of the essay\u2014”Oral Storytelling as a Yucatec Maya Strategy of Resistance”\u2014argues that orality and oral performance constitute a form of resistance to colonial oppression and the textual erasures committed by figures like friar Diego de Landa, who burned the Maya codices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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