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| Maya | | Posted: 2007-08-01 | | 2003, Allen J. Christenson | | In this edition, Allen Christenson has published a two volume set that includes both a free translation and literal translation. The first volume is a free translation with copious footnotes to explain the meaning of various words, concepts and practices. It also includes an overview of the history of the Popol Vuh and demonstrates the numerous poetic conventions used in this great narrative. The second volume is divided into two parts. The first is a two column format with a literal translation on the left and the original text transcribed into modern orthography on the right. Christenson has arranged this text according to its poetic structure with the lines that are parallel in form or concept joined together. The lines are numbered for easy reference. The second part of volume two presents the text in its original orthography and as a continuous text. The line numbers of the first part have been added to this text again for ease of reference. Christenson’s stated purpose for using the modern orthography in part one is to provide the contemporary K’iche’ who now use this orthography with greater access to the document. Click to view the entire review | | | | Mesoamerica - General | | Posted: 2007-09-13 | | 2004, Julia A. Hendon and Rosemary A. Joyce | | Mesoamerican Archaeology; Theory and Practice is one of the latest in a long line of books designed as texts for university undergraduate classes in Mesoamerican archaeology. It is the initial volume in Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, a new series of textbooks on the archaeology of the world’s major regions. Series editors Lynn Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce have established a high goal for the entire effort, and one by which the first book should be measured. Click to view the entire review | | |
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