Transformational journeys : an ethnologist's memoir / Victoria R. Bricker

Includes bibliographical references

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.