Search Results for landa

...Mark Lentz [email protected] The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the “Account of the Things of Yucatan.” By Matthew Restall , Amara Solari , John F. Chuchiak IV , and Traci Ardren . Denver : University Press of Colorado , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables...

...Sylvanus G. Morley Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Landa’s Relatión de las Cosas de Yucatán . A translation edited with notes by Tozzer Alfred M. . [ Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. XVIII .] ( Cambridge...

...Mónica Salas Landa Abstract Whereas scholars of postrevolutionary Mexico have long attended to the ideological significance of pre-Hispanic monuments, this article looks at the actual work involved in reconstructing them. Field reports from state archaeologists for the pyramid at Tajín...

...Mónica Salas Landa Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction . By Gastón R. Gordillo . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 315 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 “What, exactly...

...Mónica Salas Landa Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu . By Amy Cox Hall . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 267 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...

...Colby Ristow In Visible Ruins , Mónica Salas Landa examines the aesthetic dimension of state building in the lowlands of Veracruz through the rise and fall of Mexico's revolutionary project. Tracing the intertwined histories of three state interventions—agrarian reform, economic nationalism...

... by Duke University Press 2020 Why did Mayas of the Yucatán readily venerate Marian images soon after Spanish evangelization? Amara Solari uses the case of Our Lady of Itzmal, a miraculous Marian statue introduced into the Mayan town of Itzmal by Diego de Landa in 1558 that eventually gained...

...John S. Curtiss Relación de las cosas de Yucatán [in Russian]. By Landa Diego de . Moscow , 1955 . Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences . Maps. Charts. Illustrations. Index. Pp. 269 . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

... Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Relation de las Cosas de Yucatan . By Diego de Landa P. Fray . Introduction and Notes by Martínez Héctor Pérez . Seventh edition. ( Mexico, D. F. : Editorial Pedro Robredo , 1938 . Pp. 411 .) ...

...Duvon C. Corbitt Bartolomé Masó y Márquez: Estudio biográfico documentado . By Landa Rufino Pérez . [ Academia de la Historia de Cuba .] ( Habana. Imp. “El Siglo XX” , 1947 . Pp. vii , 396 . Illustrations .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...Robert S. Chamberlain Relación de las cosas de Yucatán . By Diego De Landa Fray . Introduction by ángel Ma. Garibay K. 8th edition. México , 1959 . Editorial Porrúa, S. A. Biblioteca Porrúa, No. 13 . Illustrations. Maps. Index . Pp. xviii , 252 . Paper . Copyright...

... in the neighborhood of La Viña. At the time, La Viña was home to artisans, the popular classes, and newcomers from the Americas. 43 Soon after, his parents seem to have gained another prominent patron. Gonzales stated that he grew up in the household of “Da. Dolores Aguilar, mugger de Dn. Antonio Landa, Capitan de...

... of the Maya” von Hagen presents a clear and informative account of the customs of the people of Yucatan and vicinity at the coming of the Spanish conquerors. He has produced a unified and well documented work from such diverse sources as Diego de Landa’s “Relation of the things of Yucatan,” the Maya books...

... on sources that make reference to Mayapan, including Landa, the Relaciones geográficas , the books of Chilam Balam, and a number of lesser known writings. A documented examination of Mayapan history is included, as well as a series of extracts from the sources in English translation. These are full...

... place value (360 instead of 400). Underlying his entire procedure is the idea that the Maya used counters, possibly grains of maize and beans and small stones as mnemonic devices. His idea is reinforced by Diego de Landa’s sixteenth-century statement that the Maya counted on the ground or on a flat...

.... Carmen Viqueira Landa, are an excellent reflection of the author’s intellectual influences (Armillas, Childe, Steward, Wittfogel), his primary research interests, and his own intellectual development, although his early interests are better represented than those that captured his attention later in life...

... in other secondary sources or, better yet, in detailed, dependable, translated, and widely available primary sources, such as those by Diego de Landa and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Few facets of Latin American history are more significant than medical history. Disease has been important everywhere...

... of science (anthropology) and humanism in the search for meaning in Mesoamerican art. The 85 pages of text in Anton’s “art” book deal with the distaff side as reported by Sahagún, Landa, Cieza de León, and others. Headings, such as Prostitution and Orgiastic Religion, Food and Cooking, Burial Sacrifices...

... with corroborative manuscript evidence from Spanish archives. There are curious omissions from the standard repertoire of chronicles and edited collections— Diego de Landa receives only passing reference, for example—and some welcome additions, like Francisco Cárdenas y Valencia, who rarely appears in any...

... Mérida only during the religious repression of Bishop Landa, and Puebla only because of the controversy between Bishop Palafox and the Jesuits. She likewise limits herself to the officially sponsored literary activities of the clergy educated in the colony’s colegios , seminaries, and university. Thus...