Maya History and Religion: Volume 99

by J. Eric S. Thompson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806122471
• ISBN13: 9780806122472
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"