Memorias del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Mayistas
Subtitle: conferencia inaugural, conferencias magistrales, conferencia de clausura arqueología, antropología física, epigrafía, lingüística.
Contributors: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Centro de Estudios Mayas.
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas
Published: 1995
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: Mayas -- Congresses.; Mayan languages -- Congresses.
Description: "Proceedings of a 1995 international conference on the Maya held in San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico). Papers focus on lowland Maya archaeology, especially of the Yucatan peninsula. Featured essays focus on bird symbolism; images of the Maya as represented in archaeological and ethnographic literature; similarities between Quiche myths in the Popol Vuh and those of central Mexico; architecture of ancient Becan (Campeche); and oral literature of modern Santa Catarina Palopo in the Guatemalan highlands. Eighteen additional papers on the archaeology of the Yucatan, ten on sites in Tabasco, Chiapas, Belize, and Peten (Guatemala), six on linguistic themes (including one on epigraphy), and two on biological anthropology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: [1] Inauguración, homenajes, lingüística, lingüística y textos indígenas, antropología social y etnología; title: [2] Mesas redondas, arqueología, epigrafía; title: [3] Conferencias plenarias, arte prehispánico, historia, religión.