Kaqchikel Chronicles : The Definitive Edition / with translation and exegesis by Judith M. Maxwell and Robert M. Hill II.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Robert M., 1952-

Maxwell, Judith M. (Judith Marie), 1948-

Standardized Title:

Annals of the Cakchiquels. English.

Language:

English

Mayan languages

Subjects (All):

Títulos de Xpantzay--History and criticism.

Títulos de Xpantzay.

Annals of the Cakchiquels--History and criticism.

Annals of the Cakchiquels.

Cakchikel language--Texts.

Cakchikel language.

Cakchikel Indians--History--Sources.

Cakchikel Indians.

Cakchikel literature--History and criticism.

Cakchikel literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (784 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

Translated from the Cakchiquel.

Summary:

The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history from their legendary departure from Tollan/Tula through their migrations, wars, the Spanish invasion, and the first century of Spanish colonial rule. The texts represent a variety of genres, including formal narrative, continuous year-count annals, contribution records, genealogies, and land disputes. While the Kaqchikel Chronicles have been known to scholars for many years, this volume is the first and only translation of the texts in their entirety. The book includes two collections of documents, one known as the Annals of the Kaqchikels and the other as the Xpantzay Cartulary. The translation has been prepared by leading Mesoamericanists in collaboration with Kaqchikel-speaking linguistic scholars. It features interlinear glossing, which allows readers to follow the translators in the process of rendering colonial Kaqchikel into modern English. Extensive footnoting within the text restores the depth and texture of cultural context to the Chronicles. To put the translations in context, Judith Maxwell and Robert Hill have written a full scholarly introduction that provides the first modern linguistic discussion of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic structure of sixteenth-century Kaqchikel. The translators also tell a lively story of how these texts, which derive from pre-contact indigenous pictographic and cartographic histories, came to be converted into their present form.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

KEY TO THE ABBREVIATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES USED IN THE INTERLINEAR GLOSSES

PART ONE Introduction and Linguistic Commentary

CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND

CHAPTER 2 THE DOCUMENTS

CHAPTER 3 LINGUISTIC COMMENTARY

CHAPTER 4 THE TRANSLATION PROJECT AND POLITICS

Charts

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART TWO The Chronicles

Spanish Map of Xpantzay Lands

The "Annals"

Xajil Chronicle part 1

Xajil Chronicle part 2

Pakal Documents

Q'ebut Genealogy

Q'eqak'uch Genealogy

The Don Pedro Ellas Martin Chronicle

Accounts of Disputes, 1580s-1591

Contribution Records

Marriages of Francisco Diaz

The Xpantzay Cartiilary

Notes:

Translated from the Cakchiquel.

Translation of Mayan documents known as Annals of the Cakchiquels and Títulos de Xpantzay (Xpantzay cartulary).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-80).

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Títulos de Xpantzay. English

ISBN:

0-292-73523-5

OCLC:

966825710