Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures

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195 Index Page numbers in italics represent illustrations. Abreu Gómez, Ermilo, 31, 70–71, 77–82, 85 Africans, influence of, 105–6 agency, 17–18, 113; denying indigenous, 22, 67; in Maya interactions with outsiders , 119–22, 124–30, 132; in Maya modernity, 118–19, 139; of Maya women, 148, 151, 155, 159; stories asserting Maya, 87, 129; storytellers ’, 2, 27, 31, 38–39, 42–43, 90–91; storytellers’ blunted, 39, 46, 56, 59–60, 141; storytellers’ discursive, 59, 101–2, 115–18; storytelling as, 19, 38–39, 56, 72–73, 97–98; subaltern, 107, 115, 118 Anderson, Benedict, 14, 20 Andrade, Manuel J., 31, 81–85 archeology, 67, 74, 88–89 Arias, Arturo, 25, 65 assimilation, 62, 64, 73 Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 63, 65 audience, 29, 76–77, 86, 102–3; nonindigenous , 74, 96; participation by, 99, 125–26; storytellers shaping story for, 42–43, 58, 96 authenticity, 32, 36, 43, 66, 75–76 authority, 13; of author-narrators, 30–31, 43; of cultural brokers, 75, 78, 81, 96–97; to rule, 41–44, 53–56; over stories, 6–7, 45; of storytellers, 2, 137, 140; subversion of hegemonic, 115–18 author-narrators: creating distance, 30–31, 43; cultural brokers as, 31, 37–44, 66, 72–73, 76, 83, 93; cultural brokers vs., 36–37, 70–71; storytellers and, 31, 37–38, 75–76, 137 Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo, 3, 53, 71 Benjamin, Walter, 18–19 Bierhorst, John, 14–15, 35–36 Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo, 16–18, 103 Bonilla Caamal, Humberto, 50–53, 57–59 Bonilla Caamal, Mariano, 28, 46, 95, 97, 124; stories by, 107–13, 119–31 Bourdieu, Pierre, 13–14 Briceño Chel, Fidencio, 4–5, 135 Bricker, Victoria, 99, 131 Burns, Allan F., 15, 20, 31, 82, 89–93, 97 Carrillo, Estanislao, 40–45, 53, 58 Carrillo y Ancona, Crescencio, 45–46, 57–59 Castellanos, Rosario, 17, 21–24 Castillo Cocom, Juan, 7–8 “Chan moson” (Góngora Pacheco), 137–45 “Chen konel” (Martínez Huchim), 146–53 Chilam Balam, 3, 53–56, 65 Cocom Pech, Jorge, 26–27, 102–3 colonialism, 6, 8, 19–20, 63–64, 105–6 conquest, 68–69, 87–88 conversations, stories as, 20–21, 99, 141 Cuentos mayas yucatecos (Andrade and Máas Collí), 31, 82–85 196 • Index Cuevas Cob, Briceida, 133–34, 153–60 cultural brokers, 24, 65–70, 78–79, 84–85, 137; agency of storytellers and, 31, 38–39, 56, 59–60, 90–91; authority of, 78, 81, 96–97; author-narrators and, 31, 36–44, 66, 70–73, 76, 83, 93; indigenous, 34–35; informants and, 90–92; interpretations by, 34, 44, 96; representations by, 22–23, 31, 152; Rosado Vega as, 74–77; storytellers and, 31, 38, 60, 71, 74, 83, 93; storytellers as, 28, 124 cultural control, 16–18, 21, 55–56, 69, 76; Maya asserting, 23–24, 86, 88, 130–32, 141 culture, 105, 118; appropriation of hegemonic, 102–4; Aztec, 65, 71; indigenous, 6, 33, 35, 64, 66; indigenous in national identity, 65, 83, 88; indigenous responses to hegemonic, 24, 119, 129, 132; subaltern and dominant, 11–13, 73 culture, Maya, 7–8, 67–68, 72, 78, 82, 102, 134; contemporary, 83, 101, 143–45, 147; domestic abuse in, 149–50; gender in, 134, 146–49, 153, 157–59; perceptions vs. reality, 5, 104; silencing of, 83–84; stories published to prove aliveness of, 71, 73; transmitted through storytelling, 99, 101, 132; women as keepers of, 154–57 discourse of the Indio, 17–18, 22–23, 33, 46; author-narrators recycling, 43, 76; cultural brokers and, 96–97 Duncan, Quince, 106–7 “The Dwarf of Uxmal,” 1–2, 27–28, 54–55; as allegory, 55–58; authornarrator ’s distance in telling, 30–31; Carrillo’s version of, 45–46; comparison of versions of, 41–44, 52–53, 57–59, 85–86; contemporary versions of, 46–52; Gonzaga’s version of, 48–53; Stephens’s version of, 39–41 Dzul Ek, Armando, 34–35 Dzul Poot, Domingo, 53, 85–86 Farris, Nancy, 99, 118 “The First Thing I Said to Dr. Morley” (Yamá), 89–92 Florescano, Enrique, 19–20, 99 folklore, 44, 79–80, 83, 141; oral literature vs., 15, 37, 107, 136; recording of orality called, 14–15; silences in, 93–94; testimonio vs., 32–33 Gamio, Manuel, 62–63, 65, 67, 70 Góngora Pacheco, María Luisa, 133–34, 137–45 Gonzaga, Luis, 48–49, 53, 57–59 González, Gaspar Pedro, 25–26 “Hbaatab Kaaswelah” (Poot...