The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520053095
ISBN 13
9780520053090
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
1986
Publisher
Pages
320
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
