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an ethnologist's memoir

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An edition of Transformational journeys (2017)

Transformational journeys

an ethnologist's memoir

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This is the professional memoir of an ethnologist, who studies the cultures and languages of ethnic groups, in the present and in the past. Victoria R. Bricker's journeys -- from Hong Kong to Shanghai during World War II, to the U.S. after the war, to Germany, Harvard, southeastern Mexico, and eventually to New Orleans -- influenced her choice of ethnology as a career and shaped that career over 50 years. Ethnology served as the stepping stone for intellectual forays into other related fields, such as linguistics, ethnohistory, epigraphy, and astronomy, all focused on the Maya people of southern Mexico and Central America.

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American Philosophical Society Press
Language
English
Pages
328

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Subjects

Ethnologists, Biography, Mayas, Social life and customs

People

Victoria Reifler Bricker (1940-)

Places

United States

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Philadelphia, PA
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society -- volume 106, part 5, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 106, pt. 5.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.80092, B
Library of Congress
GN21.B66 T73 2017, GN21.B66T73 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 328 pages
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL43743603M
ISBN 10
1606180657
ISBN 13
9781606180655
LCCN
2017008925
OCLC/WorldCat
975176316

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