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The people of the bat : Mayan tales and dreams from Zinacantán / collected and translated by Robert Laughlin ; edited by Carol Karasik.

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TextPublication details: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press , c1988Description: 282 p. : illus. ; 23 cmISBN:

0-87474-590-X

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LAS 398.3 KAR

Summary: Although European influence is strong, the Zincanatan, a small Mayan community in the Mexican highlands, continues to celebrate the old gods, especially the bat god from which they take their name, and to affirm the truth of myth and dreams. Dream interpretation is dependent upon cultural values and the dreamer's circumstances and state of mind. Dreams portend the future, serve to communicate between mortals and the divine, and offer tests of endurance. Laughlin discusses the role of dreams and folk literature in the daily lives of Middle American Indians and, in his ethnographic notes, shows the continuity of folk motifs across space and time.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 398.3 KAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014583

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Although European influence is strong, the Zincanatan, a small Mayan community in the Mexican highlands, continues to celebrate the old gods, especially the bat god from which they take their name, and to affirm the truth of myth and dreams. Dream interpretation is dependent upon cultural values and the dreamer's circumstances and state of mind. Dreams portend the future, serve to communicate between mortals and the divine, and offer tests of endurance. Laughlin discusses the role of dreams and folk literature in the daily lives of Middle American Indians and, in his ethnographic notes, shows the continuity of folk motifs across space and time.

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