Time and the Highland Maya

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Revised edition. 1992 Trade Paperback. xv, 293 pp. "Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiché Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade. The Classic Mayan obsession with time has never been better known. Here, Barbara Tedlock redirects our attention to the present-day keepers of the ancient calendar. Combining anthropology with formal apprenticeship to a diviner, she refutes long-held ethnographic assumptions and opens a door to the order of the Mayan cosmos and its daily ritual.