Traditional anthropological analyses of myth do not account adequately for historical processes of cultural syncretism and antisyncretism. This dissertation is an examination of a collection of myth texts written in Yucatec Maya during the Colonial period (c.1540 A.D.--1820 A.D.), particularly those present on pages forty-two through sixty-three of the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel. The research consists of a comparative examination of multiple redactions of individual myths, as well as analyses of the instances of reported speech and markers of evidentiality that occur in these myths. In contrast with traditional approaches, the methodology is grounded in a dialogical theory of language and culture. The application of such a methodology reveals the interconnectedness of indigenous responses to religious and linguistic (anti)syncretism with processes of identity formation in colonial Yucatan. New translations of these Maya myth texts in the Book of Chilam Balam are provided that take into account both the Prehispanic and European written and oral sources to which these myths were composed in rejoinder / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_27740 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Contributors | Knowlton, Timothy W (Author), Bricker, Victoria R (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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