Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest - Brossura

Perera, Victor; Bruce, Robert D.

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ISBN 10: 0520053095 ISBN 13: 9780520053090

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1986

Riassunto

A journalist and anthropologist describe their stay among a Mexican Indian tribe descended from the Maya and recount what they learned of the Indian's mythology and culture

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"The Last Lords of Lalenque" is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. They are the sole inheritors of an oral tradition that preserves - more than 400 years after the Spanish Conquest - a cosmology, a morality and a psychology as sophisticated as our own. Journalist and novelist Victor Perera and linguist Robert Bruce have lived among the Lacandones, chronicling their imperiled Mayan culture.

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• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0520053095
• ISBN 13: 9780520053090
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 343