Conquista y pérdida de Yucatán
Subtitle: la arqueología estadounidense en el "Área maya" y el Estado Nacional Mexicano, 1875-1940
By: Guillermo Palacios
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ciudad de México, México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9786075642932
Subjects: Antiquities; Discovery and exploration; Excavations (Archaeology); History; Découverte et exploration; Fouilles (Archéologie); Histoire; Discoveries in geography
Other titles: La arqueología estadounidense en el "Área maya" y el Estado Nacional Mexicano, 1875-1940
Description: This book deals with the archaeological expeditions to the Yucatan Peninsula that were financed by US funds from the eighties of the 19th century, in particular those native to the Cambridge-Boston area, then continued, between 1923 and 1940, by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, under the new concept of "scientific archaeology". The basic argument postulated by this research is that the geographical and conceptual construction of the "Mayan Area", initiated by a group of antique dealers-collectors and academic entrepreneurs from the Boston-Cambridge area, was fundamental to the development of archaeology (and anthropology) in the United States. The publication of a book that narrated the exports to Harvard of archaeological specimens removed from the bottom of the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá by the former American consul Edward H. Thompson, that coincided with the struggle of the government of General Calles with that of the United States, caused a political earthquake that closed the spaces for American archaeology in Mexico, at a time when World War II radically altered Washington's scientific priorities.
Notes: La traducción de las cartas de Edward H. Thompson, ralizada por G. Palacios, trató de mantener una equivalencia aproximada con la sintaxis del original en inglés.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-322).
Table of contents: title: Los Bostonians y los primeros rumbos de la arqueología americanista estadounidense, c. 1875-1894; title: El cónsul Thompson, 1893-1904; title: El dragado del Cenote Sagrado de Chichén Itzá, 1904-c. 1914; title: Cl Carnegie y los "pecados de los antecesores": inicio y fin del Proyecto Chichén, 1914-1940.