First Book Written, Illustrated, and Made by Mayans in 500 Years
Conjuros y ebriedades: Cantos de mujeres mayas
Notes: According to the introduction by Elena Poniatowska, this is the first book written, illustrated, and assembled by Mayans in more than 500 years ("es el primer libro escrito, ilustrado y confeccionado por el pueblo Mayo en más de 500 años..."). This historic book collects a hundred or so poems in Spanish and Maya (with facing-page translations into Spanish), with two color illustrations by Mayan artists.
Conjuros is the major publication of Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book and paper collective started in Chiapas by the American-Mexican poet Ámbar Past.
This is the second edition, with the Poniatowska introduction, which is not present in the 1997/8 first edition. The sheets are printed offset from the serigraphed first edition. The binding, a sculpted face made from molded fiber, is the same as the first edition. The second edition comes in a printed cardboard box not included with the first. According to the afterword of the expanded English-Spanish version, Incantation, more than a thousand copies of the offset edition were printed.
[xii], [6], 7–190, [4] pages.10 by 9-3/4 inches, in a close-fitting box. Uncommon in any edition.
Edition + Condition: A near fine to fine copy in a near fine box.
Publication: San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: Taller Leñateros, 2007.
ISBN: 9789709011067
Item No: #307319
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