Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368727796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 4, October 1885 - April 1887
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368727796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368727796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 8, 1892 - 1893
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368728067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368728067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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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.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Senate documents
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Bibliography of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne to Joseph Holt Ingraham
Author: Jacob Blanck
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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