Contributions

  • Shumaker, Susan A. M. - Contributor
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

21,750 words, Guess

Page Count

87 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing4279480
  • Goodreads3695685

Classifications

  • DDC972.81/016
  • LCCF1435 .J82 1995

Description

"Richly illustrated catalog accompanied the renovated exhibition at Harvard's Peabody Museum. Like the exhibition, the catalog is divided into three parts: the age of encounter between indigenous and Spanish peoples; the classic Maya; and cultural survival in the contemporary world among the highland Maya of Guatemala, the Kuna people of Panama, and Amazonian societies. The authors present their own synthetic treatments of these subjects, supported by well-selected testimony from the actors themselves, such as Hernando Cortés, Sahagún's informants as presented by The Broken Spears, and recorded testimony from contemporary indigenous peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Subjects

Topics

MayasExhibitionsAntiquitiesMayas, antiquitiesIndians of South AmericaDiscovery and explorationIndians of Central America

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