Month: January 2009

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Rethinking the Context of Popol Vuh

Doctoral Dissertation. Although seventeenth-century Dominican priest Francisco Ximénez is credited for conservation of Popol Vuh, no critical attention is given to his personal agency and his ecclesiastical agenda. The oversight is particularly disconcerting where he plainly states in his prologue, “Esta mi obra, y trabaxo discurro q’ avra muchos q’ la tengan por la mas futil y vana de las q’ he trabaxado, asi lo pensaran muchos; y yo lo discurro al contrario, porq’ entiendo ser la mas util, y neçesaria.” My investigation is founded on answering the question: Why did Father Ximénez believe conservation of this text to be his crowning achievement? I answer this question by examining the four prologues of the Ayer manuscript to uncover Ximénez’s significant interaction with the text.more ›

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Citations & Attributions

Citations & Attributions

Hall, Matthew. The Imagination of Plants: A Book of Botanical Mythology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. Print.

Graper, Julianne Laurel. Bat people: multispecies ethnomusicology in Austin, TX and Chiapas, MX. The University of Texas at Austin, 2019. Diss.

Rodriguez, Teresa Jeannette. Lady Blood: An Intuitive Inquiry into the Transformative Effects of Remembering my Ancestors. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2018. Diss.

Mazariegos, Oswaldo C. Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2017. Print.

Chen, Ning. “The Morphological Reading of the Mesoamerican Myth Popol Vuh.” Studies in Literature and Language. 13:3. 2016. 42-47.

Zolov, Eric, Ed. Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2015. 664-666. Print.

“The Popol Vuh and the Globalization of Chocolate.” https://chocolateclass.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/the-popol-vuh-and-the-globalization-of-chocolate/ 21 Feb 2014. Web

Andrews, Nicholas Jared. Texts of Protest: Perspectives on Suffering in the Book of Job and the Popol Vuh. California State University, Fresno, 2013. Thesis.

Kramer, Wendy, W. George Lovell, and Christopher H. Lutz. “Pillage in the Archives: The Whereabouts of Guatemalan Documentary Treasures”. Latin American Research Review. Latin American Studies Association. 48:3. 2013. 153-167. Print.

Thornton, John K. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012: 429. Print.