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Of shoes and ships and sealing wax

by Robert M. Laughlin

Description and travelSocial life and customsTextsTzotzil IndiansTzotzil language

Part 1 contains the travel of two Mayan Indians from Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico, who accompanied the author to the United States in 1963 and again in 1967; part 2 is a miscellany of ethnographic text supplied by Romin Teratol, one of the travelers, in response to the author's occasional requests for re-creations of Zinacantec dialogue and activities.

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Book data: Open Library