Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables

Name: Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables
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ISBN: 9781880684030

ISBN-10: 1880684039

ISBN-13: 9781880684030

Edition: 1995

Authors: Victor Montejo, Wallace Kaufman, Allen F. Burns, Allen F. Burns

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A collection of Mayan folktales deals with themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts.

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

VICTOR MONTEJO is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis.



A Linguistic Note


Author's Preface


Introduction


The Bird Who Cleans the World


The Affair of the Horns


From Mouse to Bat


How the Serpent Was Born


Sometimes Right is Repaid with Wrong


The First Monkeys


The Disobedient Child


The Tail of the Dog


The Toad and the Buzzard


The Toad and the Crab


The Proof of the Mice


Laziness Should Not Rule Us


Advice from a Jackass


Who Cuts the Trees Cuts His Own Life


The Ungrateful Alligator


The Little Boy Who Talked with Birds


The Child Who Saw Visions


The Snail and the Minnow


The Curious Mice


The Work of the Mosquito


The War of the Wasps


The King of the Animals


The Loudmouth and Death


The Hen and the Frog


The Man and the Buzzard


The Vulture and the Sparrow Hawk


The Buzzard and the Dove


The Possum and the Jaguar


The Lazy Man


The Great Jaguar


The Skunk and the Rabbit


The Old Ones' Friendship: the Dog, the Jaguar, and the Coyote


Notes


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