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

Perera, Victor; Bruce, Robert D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520053095 ISBN 13 : 9780520053090

Editeur : University of California Press, 1986

Synopsis

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, 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520053095
• ISBN 13: 9780520053090
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 343
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible