The Last Lords of Palenque The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest
1st California pbk Edition
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520053090 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jul 1992 |
Edition: | 1st California pbk Edition |
DEWEY: | 972.00497 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 333 |
Weight: | 499g |
Height: | 240mm |
Width: | 155mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |