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

by Victor Perera and Robert D. Bruce

Book Overview

The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Nahá 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520053095
• ISBN13: 9780520053090
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"