
Rabinal Achi : A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama
by Breton, Alain-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A Unique Text | p. 2 |
An Exceptional Destiny | p. 7 |
History of a Discovery | p. 7 |
Earlier Editions and Publications | p. 11 |
The Perez Manuscript | p. 13 |
Conflicts between the Rabinaleb and the Quiche | p. 19 |
The Historical Context | p. 19 |
The Trial | p. 26 |
The Protagonists | p. 27 |
An Agonistic Joust | p. 42 |
The Current State of the Text | p. 47 |
The Present Edition | p. 48 |
Regarding the Transcription | p. 51 |
Regarding the Translation | p. 53 |
Regarding the Presentation | p. 53 |
The Perez Manuscript | p. 55 |
The Text: Transcription and Translation | p. 123 |
Analysis: An Exemplary History | p. 279 |
Return to the Places: Spaces and Journeys | p. 280 |
Spatial Perspective | p. 281 |
Temporal Perspective | p. 286 |
Historical Perspective | p. 290 |
Return to the Actors: Figures of the Warrior and the King | p. 292 |
The Figure of the Warrior | p. 293 |
The Figure of the King | p. 297 |
Supremacy of One Figure over the Other | p. 300 |
Return to Events | p. 302 |
A Disputed Territory | p. 302 |
An Impossible Alliance | p. 306 |
The War: A Metaphor for the Hunt | p. 308 |
Return to the Text: Epilogue | p. 314 |
Glossary | p. 319 |
References | p. 373 |
Index | p. 387 |
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