Encounters with the Americas
By: Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan A. M. Shumaker ; photographs by Hillel S. Burger.
Contributors: Shumaker, Susan A. M.; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Peabody Museum Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology -- Exhibitions.; Mayas -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.; Indians of South America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Exhibitions.
Description: "Richly illustrated catalog accompanied the renovated exhibition at Harvard's Peabody Museum. Like the exhibition, the catalog is divided into three parts: the age of encounter between indigenous and Spanish peoples; the classic Maya; and cultural survival in the contemporary world among the highland Maya of Guatemala, the Kuna people of Panama, and Amazonian societies. The authors present their own synthetic treatments of these subjects, supported by well-selected testimony from the actors themselves, such as Hernando Cortés, Sahagún's informants as presented by The Broken Spears, and recorded testimony from contemporary indigenous peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-87).
To accompany an exhibit at the Peabody Museum.