Chol (Mayan) Folktales: A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico

Chol (Mayan) Folktales deftly combines high-quality and thoughtfully edited transcriptions of oral storytelling with translation and narrative analysis, documenting and analyzing a trove of Chol folklore. The work provides a look into the folktale culture of the contemporary Maya presented with a rare and innovative theoretical framework.

The rich Chol oral narrative tradition is represented by eleven stories, each printed in the original language of the storytellers with parallel English ...