Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: Sundries from Zinacantán

dc.contributor.authorLaughlin, Robert M.
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-29T12:55:03Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-14T19:07:03Z
dc.date.available2007-05-29T12:55:03Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-03-14T19:07:03Z
dc.date.issued1980
dc.description.abstractThis volume is divided into two sections. Part 1 contains the travels of two Mayan Indians from Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, who accompanied the author to the United States in 1963 and again in 1967. The first trip was described as it unfolded and then again after the passage of eight years. The second trip was described four years later. The travelers comment on such varied subjects as the assassination of President Kennedy, the Zuni Shalako, a football game, first views of snow and of the ocean, black-white relations, automation, and the “March on the Pentagon” in November 1967. Part 2 is a miscellany of ethnographic texts supplied by Romin Teratol, one of the above travelers, in response to the author's occasional requests for re-creations of Zinacantec dialogue and activities. The subjects range from seductions, a birth, requests for loans and repayment, requests for godparents, and for the return of a wife, house-dedication prayers, common prayers, religious officials' prayers, shamans' prayers, oaths of office, religious officials' songs, a wedding song, and a drunkard's song. Together they provide a convincing if haphazard exhibit of the richness and variety of Zinacantec oral literature as it is created daily by the citizens of Zinacantán.
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dc.identifier.citationLaughlin, Robert M. 1980. <em><a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1363">Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: Sundries from Zinacantán</a></em>. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology</em>, 25. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.25.1">https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.25.1</a>.
dc.identifier.eISSN1943-6661
dc.identifier.isbn0081-0223
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.25.1
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSmithsonian Institution Press
dc.relation.ispartofSmithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 25
dc.titleOf Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: Sundries from Zinacantán
dc.typebook
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sro.description.unitnh-anthropology
sro.identifier.doi10.5479/si.00810223.25.1
sro.identifier.itemID113368
sro.identifier.refworksID52001
sro.identifier.urlhttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1363
sro.publicationPlaceWashington, D.C.

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