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"This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K'iche' Maya in the highlands of Guatemala in 1554. This volume contains a new translation from the original text, based on a manuscript copy rediscovered by Robert Carmack in 1973."

"... una colección que busca dar testimonio de algunas de las numerosas y variadas vías por las que los habitantes del territorio que hoy conocemos como Yucatán han optado por expresar su singularidad a lo largo de los tiempos y las regiones"--Page 7

"Este libro explica la construcción social del conocimiento de la matemática maya. Lo hace con el fin de evidenciar su naturaleza, sus criterios de organización y su vivenciación que sustentan la epistemología de la matemática maya. Está basado en un estudio etnográfico-participativo realizada con la comunidad maya Tz'utujil. Utiliza la socioepistemología como marco teórico para su abordaje, y por el carácter sistémico de este enfoque, prioriza dos aspectos fundamentales a saber: el carácter científico y la cosmovisión de la cultura maya."--Back cover

Preliminary Material /S. Blackburn -- Chapter One. Introduction /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Two. Apatanis And Their Valley /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Three. The Subu Heniin Text /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Four. The Murung Festival /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Five. The Nyibu Performer /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Six. The Subu Heniin In Translation /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions And The Future /S. Blackburn -- Appendix A. Outline Of Murung Events /S. Blackburn -- Appendix B. Number Of Murungs, 1944/1945–2009 /S. Blackburn -- Appendix C. Sacrificial Shares For Spirits And Humans /S. Blackburn -- Appendix D. Transcription Of The Subu Heniin /S. Blackburn -- Appendix E. Mudan Pai's Life-History /S. Blackburn -- Appendix F. Feasts Of Merit In The Extended Eastern Himalayas /S. Blackburn -- Bibliography /S. Blackburn -- Index /S. Blackburn.

"This film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940's, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the slash and burn cultivation of dry rice, and became settled agriculturalists. Entire mountains sides were converted to cardamom and terraced for the cultivation of irrigated paddy. The irrigated rice and the cardamom cash crop not only brought the Lepcha within Sikkim's market economy but helped create a surplus which could among other things be invested in religion. In the 1940's, the Lepcha of Tingvong embraced Buddhism and all its complex rituals without however abandoning their strong shamanic traditions. Today, both forms of rituals amiably co-exist in the village. This film is part of a long-term visual anthropology training project for the tribal communities of Sikkim."--Original container