Rabinal Achi - A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama

Informationen zum Autor Alain Breton is Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. He is the author or co-author of fifteen books.

Summary

In an exemplary trial that takes place in Kajyub, the capital of the Rabinaleb at the second half of the fifteenth century, a captured enemy warrior appears before the royal court. A series of combative dialogues pits the offending warrior against the local warrior and the king.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Breton, Alain/ Fagan Breton
• Assisted by: Alain Breton (Editor), Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation), Robert Scheider (Translation), Robert Schneider (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2007
• EAN: 9780870818738
• ISBN: 978-0-87081-873-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Mesoamerican Worlds
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous