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Collection: Mayan Languages Collection
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| Title |
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| English Title |
Mayan Languages Collection |
| Spanish Title |
Colección de Lenguas Mayas |
| Collected languages: |
Chol, Tzotzil, Yucatec Maya |
| Collector(s) |
Victoria Bricker |
| Depositor(s) |
Victoria Bricker |
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Description
[English] |
The first Tzotzil recording was made in 1964 and the last in 1972. From 1964 through 1969, my research focused on humor in Zinacantan, with the assistance of an NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship (MH-20,345), the Harvard Chiapas Project, directed by Evon Z. Vogt, and a grant from the Harvard Graduate Society. The collection includes (1) elicited humorous narratives, songs, and prayers; (2) "live" recordings of ritual humor at the fiestas of Saint Lawrence, Christmas, New Year's Day, Epiphany, and Saint Sebastian; and (3) didactic materials (lessons, texts, and exercises).
In 1971, I initiated a comparative study of oral and written accounts of Maya revitalization movements, which necessitated expansion of the geographical coverage to Chamula and Chenalho in highland Chiapas and to the Yucatan peninsula in the lowlands. This research was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Grant No. 2807) and the Tulane University Council on Research in 1971 and the Foreign Area Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council in 1972. The Yucatecan recordings include (1) histories of the Caste War of Yucatan of 1847-1901 and local manifestations of the Mexican Revolution of 1917-1921; (2) legends; (3) astronomical lore; (4) medical lore; (5) autobiographies; (6) conversations; (7) and songs (both traditional and original) from a number of different towns in the peninsula.
The collection also includes one Chol narrative from Tila, Chiapas, and four descriptions of fiestas in Huazalinguillo Nahautl.
Funds for archiving this collection were provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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| Summary of collection contents |
| Genres |
Narrative; History; Conversation; Drama; Song; Speech play; Ceremony; Educational material; Description; Ritual Song; Instrumental music; Interview; Prayer; Book |
| Number of archival files |
707 |
Percent restricted files |
1 |
| Number of audio recordings |
145 |
Total length of audio |
63:15:42 |
| Number of video recordings |
0 |
Total length of video |
0:0:0 |
| Number of digital texts* |
35 |
Pages of digital text |
760 |
| Pages of manuscript text |
527 |
Number of images |
0 |
| Memory for archival objects |
28.5G |
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| Percentage of resources that include transcriptions |
41 |
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To cite this collection:
Bricker, Victoria. "Mayan Languages Collection" The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America:
www.ailla.utexas.org. Media: audio, text. Access: 1% restricted.
* archival text formats: eaf, html, pdf/a, trs, txt, xml
** scanned texts are archived as tiffs but counted as texts
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