Bücher von John Bierhorst

This volume is not an anthology, but rather a survey of the most important myths, figures and themes of 11 regions from the Arctic to the Southwest. An afterword looks at the very practical power that ancient myths have wielded in modern American Indian affairs.

In this volume, John Bierhorst traces the principle myths from tribe to tribe in seven carefully mapped regions of South America. The text includes samples from mythological stories and some chapters are devoted to special topics such as myth and politics.

This volume provides complete translations of 20 "basic myths" of Mexico and Central America and shows how they have influenced the artistic, literary and political life of modern Mesoamerica.

An authoritative transcription, translation, and commentary on a sixteenth-century Nahuatl codex that is one of only two principal sources of Aztec song and a key document in the study of Aztec life in the century after conquest.