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Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands
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Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great “Ocean Sea” and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize.
In these narratives—primary documents written by missionaries and conquistadors—vivid details of these little known Mayan cultures are revealed, answering how and why lowlanders were able to evade Spanish conquest while similar civilizations could not. Fascinating tales of the ... Read more
Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great “Ocean Sea” and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize.
In these narratives—primary documents written by missionaries and conquistadors—vivid details of these little known Mayan cultures are revealed, answering how and why lowlanders were able to evade Spanish conquest while similar civilizations could not. Fascinating tales of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Latin America in Translation
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326243
SKU
V9780822326243
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About Feldman
Lawrence H. Feldman is an anthropologist, researcher, writer, and indexer. His previous books include A Tumpline Economy and Anglo-Americans in Spanish Archives.
Reviews for Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands
“It is exciting to have a translation of these important early documents finally available. Feldman is widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars in Central American ethnohistoric studies. His grasp of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish and paleography is superior, his translations are accurate and faithful to the documents while being understandable to the nonspecialist, and the amount of cultural, ... Read more