Andrés Xiloj

Andrés Xiloj Peruch was a K'iche' "daykeeper" (K'iche': ajq'ij) from Momostenango in Guatemala.Interview with Andrés Xiloj he was also one of the four "chuchkajawib" (lineage leaders) of Momostenango.Interview with Dennis and Barbara Tedlock [1]. After his death his son Angél became Chuchkajaw of the Santa Isabel lineage. Being a native speaker of the K'iche' language and a practitioner of traditional maya calendric divination he has served as a consultant for several anthropological studies. He assisted Dennis Tedlock in elaborating his award winning translation of the ancient K'iche' document Popol Vuh.[1] And Dennis tedlock has described the translation process as "three-way dialogue among Andres Xiloj, the Popol Vuh text, and myself"[2]

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  1. ^ Harvey Russell Bernard, 2006, Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches, Rowman Altamira, ISBN 0759108692 pp. 476-79
  2. ^ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/42.html

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