Meaning and Time: Translation and Exegesis of a Mayan Myth  

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Kockelman, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 49 no. 3/4 (Mar. 2007), page 308-387.
Fulltext: Vol. 49, No. 3-4, pp. 308-387.pdf (10.43MB)

Isi artikel

A Q'eqchi'-Mayan myth, narrated in 1909, is translated and ana lyzed. This myth describes the elopement of B'alamq'e (the sun) with Po (the moon), the actions undertaken by Po's father to punish the fugitives, and the repercussions of those events on the current world. In broad terms, it may be understood as a reflexive cosmogony?narrating events that take place in time, as undertaken by actors who are time, to explain the nature of time. According ly, the analysis focuses on grammatical categories, discourse patterns, cultural values, and social relations that shed light on Mayan understandings of tem porality. Four interrelated ways of framing temporality are deployed: poetic meter, or the linear sequencing of tokens of a common type; the relation between speech event, narrated event, and reference event; the construal of local pasts and futures via performative acts in the present; and community specific beliefs about time, or chronotopes.

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