Spirit of Chiapas
Subtitle: The Expressive Art of the Roof Cross Tradition
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780890134283
Subjects: Anthropology; Christianity; San Cristobal de las Casas; Latin America - General; Crosses; Themes, motives; Art & Art Instruction; Religion - Church History; Travel; Latin America; Mexico; Maya architecture; Folk & Outsider Art; History - General; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Christianity - General; Maya art
First sentence: MANY SURPRISES AWAITED THE SPANISH conquistadores in the sixteenth century when they first ventured ashore in the New World, for they encountered a people with their own history of conquest who had amassed considerable wealth at the expense of their subjects and who also shared with them a common symbol.