The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan: The Evolution of a Highland Guatemala Kingdom - Couverture souple

Carmack, Robert M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806142685 ISBN 13 : 9780806142685

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Synopsis

Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

The Quichés ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K'umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlán.

Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life. He describes the fall of Utatlán to the conquistadors, and the Quichés' efforts to retain a semblance of their political structure and belief system. Drawing upon archaeological discoveries and native and Spanish written documents, Carmack has produced a work that is essential to understanding the Quiché people and indispensable to a full appreciation of the immortal work the Popol Vuh, the "first book of the New World."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert M. Carmack is Professor of Anthropology in the State University of New York at Albany. The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán is the product of fourteen years spent in archaeological fieldwork and research in the great libraries and repositories of the Americas and Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806142685
• ISBN 13: 9780806142685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 454
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible