The Last Lords of Palenque - The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest (Paperback, 1st California Pbk. Ed)

"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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1986
First published:	1986
Authors:	Victor Perera • Robert D Bruce
Dimensions:	240 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
Edition:	1st California Pbk. Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-05309-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-520-05309-5
Barcode:	9780520053090

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