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Maya History and Religion (Paperback, New Ed)
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Maya History and Religion (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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Believing that Maya studies today are ""suffering from imbalance,""
J. Eric S. Thompson here approaches Maya history and religion from
the standpoint of ethno-history. Present-day archaeologists often
tend to restrict their curiosity to their excavations and social
anthropologists to observe the modern Maya as members of a somewhat
primitive society in an era of change. In this volume, a
distinguished Maya scholar seeks to correlate data from colonial
writings and observations of the modern Indian with archaeological
information in order to extend and clarify the panorama of Maya
culture.The shock of the Spanish Conquest was devastating to the
Maya. Not only were they placed under the domination of a people
uninterested in their ancient ways, but their religion was
proscribed, they were removed from their familiar settlements into
new areas, and new diseases were introduced which ravaged their
civilization. In spite of these ordeals, the Maya have clung
closely to the old ways, and Maya culture is still very much alive,
though slowly giving way before modern technology and influences.
Topics discussed include Putun Maya expansion in Yucatan and the
Pasion drainage, the depopulation of the Maya Central area at the
time of the Conquest on account of newly introduced diseases, the
location of the controversial eastern boundary of the Maya area,
trade relations between the highlands and the lowlands, the use of
hallucinatory drugs and tobacco, lowlands Maya religion, and the
creation myths of the Maya in relation to those of other Middle
American cultures. Mr. Thompson's approach to Maya life will prove
thought-provoking to archaeologists, ethnologists, historians, and
all others interested in the ancient Maya civilization.
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