Floyd Lounsbury died peacefully yesterday afternoon. For those of you who didn't know him, he was one of the last true giants of anthropology. He was a dominant figure in the fields of Iroquoian linguistics, kinship analysis, and Mayan epigraphy. Besides having one of the keenest and subtlest minds among Mesoamerican epigraphers, he was one of the finest human beings in the academic community. This is a graphics-intensive site.
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As you may have noticed, the domain name for this site is pauahtun.org , and yes, there is a connection. Legal Stuff Counters, Etc. The animated GIF prayer wheel below comes from the Home Page of The Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.