Sacred play: an ancient contribution to contemporary play theory

Ross, Susan L.

doi:10.1080/11745398.2020.1742751

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“…Given the punning, the allusion to play (pukllay) is self-referential. Susan Ross (2020), commenting on a study among the Peruvian Q'ero community, describes how her research participants viewed pukllay as a "natural state" (4) that cultivates a "union between self and other through direct reciprocal relationship" (5). As a "biopsychospiritual relational activity," pukllay "causes the individual to heal, mature, and learn in order to become a fully developed human" (4) and manifests most frequently through ritual and creative activities (4), within which poetry can certainly be included.…”

Section: Yucatec Maya: "Ixi'im"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries

Pigott

2024

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed a literary revival in the Indigenous languages of the region known canonically as “Latin America.” Across this varied corpus, a major theme is the cultural significance of maize. This article compares the depiction of maize in four bilingual poems, each written in a different Indigenous language alongside Spanish: Nahuatl (Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez), Yucatec Maya (María Dolores Dzul Barboza), Central Quechua (César Vargas Arce), and Southern Quechua (Emilio Corrales). Through close textual analysis and by recourse to theoretical perspectives such as “literary cartography,” the “textual continuum,” “deep mapping,” and “trans-indigeneity,” the article argues that each poem communicates culturally specific ways of understanding geography that, when set in dialogue, challenge hegemonic definitions of the Western Hemisphere such as North, South, or Latin “America.” Rather, the poems in combination weave an interconnected yet multiperspectival cartographic tapestry with maize as the common thread.

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Section: Yucatec Maya: "Ixi'im"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries

Pigott

2024

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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Sacred play: an ancient contribution to contemporary play theory

Cited by 1 publication

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Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries

Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries

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