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South Eastern Huastec narratives : a trilingual edition
- Title
- South Eastern Huastec narratives : a trilingual edition / Translated and edited by Ana Kondic.
- Author
- Kondic, Ana, 1959-
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 17-1445 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
| Text | Request in advance | *WGD-8587 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 197 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm +
- Summary
- South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico, has never before been written down. Although the master storytellers of the language are long gone, today's older generations preserve the vast knowledge of their cultural heritage in speech. That spoken heritage in South Eastern Huastec--ranging from traditional house-building techniques to herbal remedies and funerary practices--is gathered here and transcribed for the first time. Collected and recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, between 2007 and 2011, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec traditions, oral literature, and daily life. Kondic divides South Eastern Huastec Narratives into five thematic sections: traditional practices, contemporary life, stories, songs, and customary foodways. Within these categories, eighteen Huastec narrators describe local beliefs, religion, rituals, and cosmology asl; HBP></ observed in cleansing ceremonies and celebrations. They detail building methods and traditional craftsmanship, the care of children, daily routines, and use of the South Eastern Huastec language itself. They recount stories and legends--of killer coyotes, drunken horsemen, and encounters with death--and explain the preparation of tamales, coffee, and hand-pressed tortillas. Wherever possible, Kondic retains in her transcriptions the unique characteristics of each speaker's voice--the self-corrections, repetitions, and pauses. Her morphological analysis of South Eastern Huastec will help experts understand the language more deeply. An accompanying audio-video DVD-ROM allows readers the rare chance to hear and see these narrators tell their stories in their own language. Of the approximately 100,000 people who speak the Huastec language, only about 12,000 use the South Eastern variety presented here. As the only book recording and analyzing this endangered language, this collection of narratives is a crucial document for preserving the South Eastern Huastec language, and the remarkable culture it conveys. The book includes a CD-ROM with both audio and video tracks"--
- "Recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, between 2007 and 2011, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec (Teenek) traditions, oral literature, and daily life. An accompanying audio-video DVD-ROM allows readers the rare chance to hear and see these narrators tell their stories in their own language"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Includes English, Spanish and South Eastern Huastec.
- Contents
- Our tradition -- Our life -- Our stories -- Our food -- Our songs -- South Eastern Huastec alphabet.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-1445
- ISBN
- 9780806151809
- 0806151803
- 9780806151816
- 0806151811
- LCCN
- 2015039984
- OCLC
- 964698029
- Author
- Kondic, Ana, 1959- compiler, editor, translator.
- Title
- South Eastern Huastec narratives : a trilingual edition / Translated and edited by Ana Kondic.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Includes English, Spanish and South Eastern Huastec.
- Added Author
- Kondic, Ana, 1959- South Eastern Huastec narratives.Kondic, Ana, 1959- South Eastern Huastec narratives. English.Kondic, Ana, 1959- South Eastern Huastec narratives. Spanish.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-1445 [Text]*WGD-8587 [DVD-ROM]