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Subject(s)

• Bricker, Victoria Reifler, 1940-—Biography [Browse]
• Ethnologists—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Mayas—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 106, pt. 5. [More in this series]
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; v. 106, part 5 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Hong kong: where it all began
• Shanghai: life under Japanese occupation
• Seattle: becoming an American
• Stanford and Germany: my first encounter with anthropology
• Harvard and France: becoming an ethnologist
• Chiapas: exploring Maya humor
• Tulane: seeking the antecedents of Maya myth and ritual
• Elut: teaching and preserving the Maya language
• Yucatan: relating the Maya present to its past
• Colonial documents: the past speaks in Maya
• Moving back in time: reading Maya hieroglyphs
• Historical astronomy: Maya records of the sky
• Katrina: aftermath of a disaster
• Retirement: no, it was not the end of the world
• Looking back.

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ISBN

• 9781606180655 ((alk. paper))
• 1606180657 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

2017008925

OCLC

975176316

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