Author: University of Alabama. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Catalog of the Yucatán Collection on Microfilm in the University of Alabama Libraries
Author: University of Alabama. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Unfinished Conversations
Author: Paul Sullivan
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101874570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between the indigenous Indians and the white intruders, paul Sullivan shows how each party to the dialogue shaped the cross-cultural encounters to their own ends. North American anthropologists preferred to see the Mayas as a primitive people and studied them, they claimed, with scientific neutrality. Yet the anthropologists hid their real intentions and lied to the Mayas, pretending to be chicle dealers or explorers, and they also (in certain important cases) worked for the United States government as covert intelligence agents. Similarly, the Mayas had their own hidden agendas—wanting guns and money from the Americans to fight the central Mexican government—and consequently charged the Americans for the tribal lore and religious secrets they imparted. Sullivan asks us to view the history of Western-Maya dialogue as a Maya would—setting the prophecies of his ancestors, the advice of his grandparents, and the events of last week in a long continuum that extends way into the future and can foretell the end of the world. By taking this view, once can see how this particular Central American people has constituted a new life, a new past, and a new future out of the ruins of great suffering and defeat. This surprising, moving, and intellectually stimulating book will remind us how even actions initiated with the best intentions can be perverted when tested by the realities of political violence, acute dependency, mutual ignorance, and fear.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101874570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between the indigenous Indians and the white intruders, paul Sullivan shows how each party to the dialogue shaped the cross-cultural encounters to their own ends. North American anthropologists preferred to see the Mayas as a primitive people and studied them, they claimed, with scientific neutrality. Yet the anthropologists hid their real intentions and lied to the Mayas, pretending to be chicle dealers or explorers, and they also (in certain important cases) worked for the United States government as covert intelligence agents. Similarly, the Mayas had their own hidden agendas—wanting guns and money from the Americans to fight the central Mexican government—and consequently charged the Americans for the tribal lore and religious secrets they imparted. Sullivan asks us to view the history of Western-Maya dialogue as a Maya would—setting the prophecies of his ancestors, the advice of his grandparents, and the events of last week in a long continuum that extends way into the future and can foretell the end of the world. By taking this view, once can see how this particular Central American people has constituted a new life, a new past, and a new future out of the ruins of great suffering and defeat. This surprising, moving, and intellectually stimulating book will remind us how even actions initiated with the best intentions can be perverted when tested by the realities of political violence, acute dependency, mutual ignorance, and fear.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
Subject Collections
Author: Lee Ash
Publisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Machete and the Cross
Author: Don E. Dumond
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803217065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ?Caste War,? an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847?1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control. ø Don E. Dumond?s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803217065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ?Caste War,? an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847?1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control. ø Don E. Dumond?s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
Subject Collections
Author:
Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery
Author: Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This book surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research. Rather than compiling lists of sources around given subject headings in the manner of many historiographies, the author seeks common ground for analysis in the new literature’s preoccupation with changing relations of land, labor, and capital and their impact on regional society and culture. Joseph proposes a new periodization of Yucatán’s modern history which he develops in a series of synthetic essays rooted in regional political economy.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This book surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research. Rather than compiling lists of sources around given subject headings in the manner of many historiographies, the author seeks common ground for analysis in the new literature’s preoccupation with changing relations of land, labor, and capital and their impact on regional society and culture. Joseph proposes a new periodization of Yucatán’s modern history which he develops in a series of synthetic essays rooted in regional political economy.
Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter
Author:
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Reference Materials on Latin America in English, the Humanities
Author: Richard Donovon Woods
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description