Reflections of Guatemala
Subtitle: costume and life in the 19th century
By: Coryn Greatorex-Bell and Christopher H. Lutz
Contributors: Lutz, Christopher, 1941- author; Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica
Publisher: Plumsock MesoAmerican Studies
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wellfleet, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780910443289
Subjects: Clothing and dress; History; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Notes: "Published in association with CIRMA, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART ONE / Corin Greatorex-Bell; title: Introduction. About the book; title: Chapter one. Leonce Angrand: some facts about his life and career; title: Chapter two. Haefkens and Galindo; title: Chapter three. Juan Galindo 1802-39. A brief resumé of his life and work; title: Chapter four Angrand's watercolours based on Galindo's sketches of certain towns; title: Chapter five. An introduction to our existing knowledge on early Guatemalan dress; title: Chapter six. Cofradias; title: Chapter seven. Men's dress; title: Chapter eight. Women's dress; title: Chapter nine. Some aspects of textile production in Guatemala: materials, looms, tribute requirements, la Sociedad Económica, the decline of the industry in the early nineteenth century; title: Chapter ten. Wool production in Guatemala; title: Chapter eleven. Foot looms; title: Chapter twelve. A look at cotton production in Englan and British exports to Latin America; title: Chapter thirteen. The decline of the Guatemalan textile industry; title: Chapter fourteen. Cabulco fabric samples; title: Chapter fifteen. Dye colours; title: Chapter sixteen. Watercolours from 1813 of Cabulco and San Cristóbal Totonicapán sent by Friar Domingo Carrascosa; title: Chapter seventeen. The Guatemalan watercolours of Léonce Angrand; title: Chapter eighteen. Accounts of Guatemalan life in the nineteenth century; title: Chapter nineteen. Léonce Angrand's watercolours plates; title: Chapter twenty. The Guatemalan sketchbook of Léonce Angrand; title: Chapter twenty-one. Angrand's Album 21; title: Chapter twenty-two. Angrand's Album 22; title: Chapter twenty-three. Angrand's Album 23; title: PART TWO / Christopher H. Lutz; title: Chapter twenty-four. Guatemalan town in Léonce Angrand's oeuvre: Origins and history to 1850.