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Acknowledgments It seemed a logical decision. I wanted to publish the folktales of Zinacantan in English, true to the words of the storytellers. For this I needed a dictionary. For ten years the tales hosted a lexical creature that consumed my energies, delaying their publication and even gobbling up all the acknowledgments that should have been offered in equal measure in this book of tales. Rather than pass around an empty bowl, I ask all those in Zinacantan, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico City, and points north who know they have enlivened and quickened the journey of this book to return to The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan for their just desserts. There are, however, a few individuals whose labors and thoughts I was able to reserve for double duty and who deserve special mention. My scribbles were converted to typed pages by Susan Brown, Paula Jones Cardwell, Rosemary Macchiavelli De Rosa, Anne Mason Lewis, Frances Mendez, Jane Norman, and Jessie Standish Shaw. The Tzotzil texts, spattered with corrections, were typed on a "word processor" by Rosalie Fanale, Susan Linn, Diana Lynn, and Frances Mendez. Their persistence and good cheer seemed superhuman. I am indebted to my wife, Miriam Wolfe Laughlin, to Sophia Lotowycz Stoller, and to Lucy Hemmendinger for alerting me to the many incomprehensible and inelegant passages that required rephrasing. Their solutions were adopted with great frequency. A quick glance at the commentaries to the tales will reveal the importance of the contributions of three colleagues who generously provided me with copies of their own unpublished Tzotzil texts—Victoria Reifler Bricker, Gary Gossen, and Robert Wasserstrom. The encouragement and thoughtful suggestions of friends, some of whom listened to readings of the tales or read sections of the manuscript, fortified my spirits and deepened my understanding—Thor Anderson, John Burstein, Munro Edmonson, John and Leslie Haviland, Eva Hunt, Walter "Chip" Morris, Francesco and Philippa Pellizzi, Timothy Rush, William Trousdale, Robert Wasserstrom, and Carter Wilson. W. S. Merwin proved that Tzotzil tales could be transformed into English poems. Four faces of the storytellers and the setting are revealed through the knowing eye of photographer Frank Cancian. The initial fieldwork, the birth of Of Cabbages and Kings, occured under the skillful ministrations of Evon Z. Vogt, who, as director of the Harvard Chiapas Project, exposed many of these folktales, even in their rough translations, to a wide number of students. A few tales first reached the public in Vogt's Zinacantan (1969). "Vogtie's" support has been a bulwark never failing. I am grateful to the National Institute of Mental Health for its aid under grant MH-02100, to the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society, to Francesco Pellizzi, and to the Smithsonian Institution for financial assistance. 7A ti vo7ne 7oy la to 7ox jun bix-7akah sakil viiiik, toj sonso, ko7ol xchi7uk 7uma7, mu la sna7 chk'opoj mu la sna7 chlo7ilaj, mu la sna7 k'op mu la sna7 rason, solel la yech. "K'usi van yes yabtel?" xiik la ti krixchanoetike. Bweno, pero ta k'unk'un ta k'unk'un 7iyich' la chanubtasel 7iyich' la p'ijubtasel ha7 to la 7iyul 7o j-set' xch'ulel. Bweno, pero k'alal yulem xa 7ox la j-set' xch'ulel ja7 to la 7ik'ocholaj ja7 to la 7ivil ech'el. Pero ta la sk'an stak tal j-likuk vun buy ta xal ti kol iyalik ti yajpas-rasontak 7une—ti 7anima mol Manvel K'obyoxe, ti skumpare mol Xun Vaskise, ti mol Xun 7Akove, ti Chep Xantise, ti skumpare Romin Teratole, ti Rey Komise, ti Romin Tan-chake, ti Lol Sarate xchi7uk ti me7tik Tonik Nibak 7une. viii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Pero ta la sjak' tal noxtok mi 7il mi pletu van xava7iik ti 7istzak ta vun 7istzak ta tz'ib ti j-p'el cha7-p'el k'u x7elan yo ye yo sti7 7uke, yu7un 7iyal la tal: Mu xu7 jch'aytik, Mu xu7 jtentik, Stalel slikel 7onox, Ma7uk to ta jtamtik ta jlikestik, Likem 7onox ta jtottik ta jme7tik, K'u x7elan ta jk'opon jbatik, Yik'taoj skomtzanoj, Ti ba7i jtottik jme7tike. 7Ak'ik xa pertonal, Yo j-set' yo juteb. Batz'i ja7 no me yech tze7ej Io7ilotik 7ech' 7o ch'ul-k'ak'al chak taje, Yu7 nox bal xka7i jbatik bu 7oy to 7amigo noxtoke. 7A ti stz'etanoj xchikin chavubil chanav ta patpat naetik mu la xtun, yech'o ti mas la lek xa7i ti vinajuk 7osilajuk ti yes yabtele. Ja7 no la yech xal tal taj yax-tz'ilan sat mol 7uk 7une.
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Acala 7Ach' Jtek-lum 7Ak'ol Mukenal
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