EL PUEBLO DEL CARGADOR DEL AÑO

This classic ethnography of the village of Jacaltenango, first published in 1932 as The Year Bearer's People, gives extensive information about all aspects of the culture, including the economy, folklore, language & especially religion. It contains a detailed description of the Year Bearer's Ceremony, which, practiced for millennia, became extinct in 1933. Contains all the original illustrations, including two drawings in color, tables of anthropometric measurements, texts in the Popb'al Ti' (Jakaltek) language with interlinear & free translation, a Popb'al Ti'-Spanish Vocabulary & a comparative word list in six Mayan languages.