Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women

This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about their poetics, beliefs, and history.In the 1970s, living among the Maya, Past watched the people endure as an epidemic swept through a village. No help came. Many children died. One mother offere...

By Ambar Past
Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press (June 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933693096
ASIN: B00740HOD0
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.7 x 8.7 inches
Amazon Rank: 15154247
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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In Ambar's own words, Taller Leñateros, the "Lenyateros' Workshop" is a "cultural society of Maya and mestizo women and men who produce something in between a performance piece and an act of witchcraft. Over wood fires in the patio boil huge kettles

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