... is also deeply resonant with the production of ethnological categories and stereotypes, since much early anthropology made use of the travelogues and writings of travelers—the en masse nature of such travels in the twentieth...

... molten gold down the throats of their would-be conquerors. But his text lacks Las Casas’s systematic presentation of evidence and moral purpose. Benzoni frankly admits that he came to the Americas to satisfy his curiosity and to find riches. His work is less a treatise than an adventurous travelogue...

... the book, but there is far more to it. In a series of ten essays, Everton presents a vision of the Maya past and present that is a mixture of scholarly, journalistic, and personal—­a sort of textbook on Yucatán that is part travelogue, part memoir, part maga- zine essay, part peer-­reviewed...

... Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who visited over fifty ancient Maya sites between 1839 and 1841. Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient...

... Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who visited over fifty ancient Maya sites between 1839 and 1841. Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient...

.... Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient Maya during the nineteenth cen- tury. Quite specifically, Glassman does not aim to analyze Stephens’s work...

.... Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient Maya during the nineteenth cen- tury. Quite specifically, Glassman does not aim to analyze Stephens’s work...

... Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who visited over fifty ancient Maya sites between 1839 and 1841. Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient...

.... Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient Maya during the nineteenth cen- tury. Quite specifically, Glassman does not aim to analyze Stephens’s work...

.... Their expeditions resulted in two enormously successful travelogues, Incidents in Travel in Central America (1841) and Incidents in Travel in Yucatán (1843), which awakened U.S. interest in the ancient Maya during the nineteenth cen- tury. Quite specifically, Glassman does not aim to analyze Stephens’s work...

... positive and the negative effects of these early contacts and goes on to summarize some of the important details that can be taken from the following texts. Although these texts appear at first to be travelogues of missionization and travel, they are more accurately detailed descriptions of nineteenth...

... of a Year's Expedition from Zeila to Cairo through Unknown Abyssinia . London: Harper and Brothers. Wilson, Michael 2003 A Merchant Marine Cadet Is Killed while Subway Surfing. New York Times , 15 November. Youngs, Tim 1994 Travelers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850-1900 . Manchester, UK...

...). The argument we wish to present takes as its point of departure a par- ticular travelogue—the narrative of one Palikur elder delivered during sev- eral hours of river travel—recorded in field notes in late August 2001. A way of “doing history” in everyday life, the “story track” configured by his...

... the monuments were easily distinguished. (Charnay 1887: 322–4) In the travelogues of these protoanthropologists, such as this one by Char- nay, much of the narrative is taken up with dramatic entries about the prob...

... pronounced as epidemic diseases reduced the number of eligible males and forced great dispersal of the population. Rather than being the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has...

... pronounced as epidemic diseases reduced the number of eligible males and forced great dispersal of the population. Rather than being the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has...

... reduced the number of eligible males and forced great dispersal of the population. Rather than being the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has changed, with a new emphasis...

... the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has changed, with a new emphasis on monogamy; a decline in blood sacrifice; and the adoption of Akyantho’, a deified version of out...

... the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has changed, with a new emphasis on monogamy; a decline in blood sacrifice; and the adoption of Akyantho’, a deified version of out...

... the ercely independent’’ forest-dwellers painted in travelogues, the Lacandon have long exhibited a curiosity and openness regarding outside ways. Religious culture too has changed, with a new emphasis on monogamy; a decline in blood sacrifice; and the adoption of Akyantho’, a deified version of out...