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The Manuscript Hunter
In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at the time. Although his efforts yielded many of the foundational texts of Mesoamerican studies—the pre-Columbian Codex Troana, the only known copies of the Popol Vuh and the indigenous dance drama Rabinal-Achi, and Diego De Landa’s Relación de la cosas de Yucatán—Brasseur earned disdain among scholars for his theories linking Maya writings to the mythical continent of Atlantis. In The Man...
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
This book is part of an encyclopedia set concerning the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. The Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources is comprised of volumes 12-15 of this set. Volume 13 presents a look at pre-Columbian Mesoamerican from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using official ecclesiastical and government records from the time.
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. This book provides a history of the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs. Introductory essays offer the historical context and describe the personalities and theories of the many authors who contributed to the understanding of these ancient glyphs.
Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, premier grand mayaniste de France
A biography of celebrated French Mayanist Charles-Etienne Brasseur.
The Aztec Image in Western Thought
Encompass the sweep of changing Western thought on the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
Volume 13 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979), constitutes Part 2 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition (Volume 13); and sources in the native tradition (Volumes 14 and 15). The present volume contains the following ...
A Companion to Latin American Literature
A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as in Buenos Aires were...
Atlantis New Beginning
Atlantis New Beginning by TJ Morris ACO is a book share of information that Theresa J Thurmond Morris finds as part of her own spiritual journey. Theresa Janette known as TJ Morris is a woman on a spiritual paranormal journey using her work and world as one now on blogtalkradio.com/TJMorrisETradio. TJ is an author, speaker, organizer of the Author Conferences Organization and Ascension Center Organization aka ACO. TJ is also a member of the ACE Folklife Historical Society of Archivists. TJ is an author of over 13 books with TJ Morris Publishing. TJ Morris is her trademark and ACO and ACIR are her service marks. TJ loves people, place, and things, and co-creates think tanks of futurists.
ACO ~ Ascension Center Organization
ACO~Ascension Center Organization by founder TJ co-creator design and reincarnation for the soul. Former Military DOD, USN,Former Investigator,Reporter, Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker.Now TJ Morris ET Radio Host, ACIR Contractor as Pres/CEO of TJ Morris ACO ~Ascension Center Organization-ACO Annual Conventions International Import & Export Trade.TJ Morris ACO Social Service Club,ACE FOLKLIFE Historical Society of Archivists and Researchers, Lightworkers and Truthseekers, TJ Morris Publishing-Timely Manor Books, Public Relations, Associate Guides, Social Entrepreneurs,Goodwill Ambassadors in ACIR.American Culture International Relations.Ambassador of Goodwill for ACIR.Interested in sustainability and accountability of the ACIR, ACE FOLKLIFE, ASCENSION CENTER, Planet Information and WIN as World Information Network. ET Information investigation experiences-Alien Contact Investigations Research Resource Reference Book of History & Future being re-written as Ascension Age
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 1, 1880 - 1881
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
