New World Classics: The Literature of the Quiche Maya
FAIN: FA-11586-76
Dennis Tedlock
Unaffiliated independent scholar
To study the literature dramas, and narratives of the Quiche Maya of Guatemala. Grantee intends to make the corpus of this literature available beyond the confines of specialized scholarship. After extensive field work, grantee will produce translations of literary quality, first of the modern Quiche oral traditions and there of classical document.