June 8 - July 19, 1997
The Maya World in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatán
June 8- July 19, 1997
A summer Institute for college and university faculty supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association and hosted by CIRMA (Centro de lnvestigationes Regionales de Mesoamerica) in Antigua, Guatemala; Na Bolom in San Crist6bal, Chiapas, Mexico; and Universidad Autonomo de Yucatán in Mérida, Yucatán.
The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), a national professional association for humanities faculty at community colleges, is devoted to advancing the humanities in higher education and in the public sector; CCHA publishes the Community College Humanities Review and welcomes submissions from two-year and four-year college faculty.
The Maya World in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatán
The Community College Humanities Association has been awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a national institute in the summer of l997 on the subject: "The Maya World in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatán." Sessions will be based in Antigua, Guatemala, from June 8 through June 25; in San Cristóbal and Palenque, Chiapas, from June 26 through July 5, and in Mérida, Yucatán, from July 6 through July 19. The three colonial capitals of Antigua, San Cristóbal, and Mérida give access to the three distinctive regional centers of Classic Maya and living Maya culture: the Southern Highlands, the Petén, and the Yucatán Peninsula. The Institute will serve twenty-five faculty participants from both two-year and four-year colleges and universities who will have the opportunity to study with thirteen nationally and internationally recognized scholars in archaeology, anthropology, comparative literature, history and art history with specialties in Maya studies.
In each of these three regional locations, the Institute will be devoted to on-site study of Maya culture in three great chronological eras: the Pre-Columbian period, the Colonial period, and the modern/contemporary period. Following the first thread, study of Pre-Columbian Maya culture will extend from its preclassic beginnings over two thousand years ago, through the period of the flowering of the great classic Maya city- states from the third to the ninth centuries in sites such as Copán, Tikal, Palenque, and Uxmal, to the post-classic manifestation in Yucatán, such as Chichen Itzá.. Secondly, in each center the Institute will include sessions devoted to the colonial culture superimposed in these traditional Maya lands; to situate Maya culture in its most inclusive context, the Institute will study the monuments, artifacts and history of the Spanish colonial culture that was established in each of these regions. Thirdly, the Institute will focus on the enduring Maya cultural traditions of Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatán, in terms of textile and other artisan traditions, village life and traditions, and representative literary and theatrical work giving expression to the contemporary Maya voice.
Thirteen scholars from the United States and Latin America will conduct the seminars and be available for consultation. The major Maya archaeological sites and monuments and characteristic living Maya communities will serve as the primary "texts" to be studied -- texts in the literal as well as metaphorical sense, because the glyphic inscriptions on the buildings can now be deciphered and read, and because a living Maya craft tradition such as textile work can also be "read." In conjunction with this field study Institute seminars will focus on the major recent scholarship, both archaeological, linguistic, art historical, and ethnographic, as selected by each visiting scholar and provided to participants in Institute Readers.
The Institute is designed to function as a stimulus to individual study and research and as a seedbed for course and curriculum development. The goals of the Institute are to enable participating faculty from a variety of disciplines to develop new competencies in the burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship in the field of Maya studies, and to enable them to bring a richer understanding of the diverse cultural realities of the Maya world to their teaching, curriculum development and scholarship. Our expectation is that an Institute devoted to this major indigenous New World culture will have significance for our collective understanding of contemporary Mexican, Central American and inter-American social, political and cultural issues, and serve to help overcome the current pattern of underrepresentation of Native American and Spanish American cultural studies in the general education curriculum.
Visiting Scholars:
Angel García-Zambrano, Project Consultant: Professor of Art History, Universidad de Zacatecas, has held fellowships from the Guggenheim (1986-87), Fundacion Polar de Venezuela (1988) and Fulbright (Scholar-in-Residence, 1992-93) programs; has conducted archival research in Mexico City, Madrid, Seville, Paris, Bogota, Caracas, Puebla, and Albuquerque; has published articles and monographs on the art of the Cathedral of Puebla and of the main church of Mérida, Venezuela, on Indian Pueblos of Colonial Venezuela, and foundation patterns of Precolumbian and colonial Indian settlements in Mexico, as well as a chapter on Indian Resettlement in Colonial America for UNESCO's General History of Latin America, vol. III: Consolidation of the Colonial Order.
Linda Green: Anthropology, Columbia University; doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and now holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; has done research on the rural economy of villages in the central highlands of Guatemala, has been consultant on health and human rights issues for governmental agencies and non-governmental groups; has presented at numerous professional conferences and published articles on health- and economy-related issues in Guatemala in a variety of journals.
Mary Louise Pratt: Spanish and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; author of Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (1977), Linguistics for Students of Literature (1980), Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992), and, with the members of the Seminar on Feminism and Culture in Latin America, co-author of Women, Culture and Politics in Latin America (1990), co-editor of Still Looking for América: Beyond the Latino National Political Survey (Stanford Center for Chicano Research, 1994), with numerous articles on linguistics, conventions of representation and the literature of travel and cultural encounter.
Michael Coe: Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Yale; was also Curator of Anthropology of the Peabody Museum; has served as Advisor at the Center for PreColumbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.; Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is recipient of the Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award from Harvard University for distinction in Mesoamerican research; author of numerous publications, including many standard works in the field, including In the Land of the Olmec (with Richard Diehl), 2 vols. (1980), Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics (1978), The Maya Scribe and His World (1973), The Maya (1966), The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central México (1965), and México (1962); his recent Breaking the Maya Code (1992) attracted widespread scholarly and popular attention.
Maria Elena Bernal Garcia
Art History, Universidad de Zacatecas, has held numerous academic and travel scholarships and delivered scholarly papers on Pre-Columbian art, iconography, and cosmovision at conferences in Austin, New Orleans, Mexico City, Veracruz, Palenque, Merida (Venezuela) and Cambridge, England; doctoral dissertation on "Carving Mountains in a Blue/Green Bowl: Mythological Urban Planning in Mesoamerica" (University of Texas, 1993).
Peter Harrison
Research Curator and Adjunct Associate Research Professor of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, has also held research positions at the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, for whom he was also Sub-Director in Charge of the University Museum's Tikal Project, as well as many other field positions in Guatemala, Belize and other archaeological projects; author of numerous excavation reports and articles, including the chapter on "Tikal: Selected Topics" in City States of the Maya, ed. E. P. Benson (1986) and on "Ancient Maya Architecture" in Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, ed. Gallenkamp and Johnson (1985), and with B. L. Turner, edited Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat (1983) and Prehispanic Maya Agriculture (1978).
Robert M. Laughlin: Curator, Department of Anthroplogy, Smithsonian; worked for many years with the Harvard Chiapas Project, collected and translated the stories in The People of the Bat/Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacantán, ed. Carol Karasik (1988), and in Of Shoes and Sealing Wax: Sundries From Zinacantán (1980), Of Cabbages and Kings: Tales From Zinacantán (1977), and Of Wonders Wild and New: Dreams From Zinacantán (1976), as well as the folktales appearing in Evon Vogt's Zinactantán (1970) and Sarah Blaffer's The Blackman of Zinacantán: A Central American Legend (1972); is also author of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Dominao Zinacantán (1988) and The Great Totzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán (1975); also serves as Literary Coordinator for popular publications and performances, Dirección General de Culturas Populares, Meacute, Mexico City and Subsecretaria de Cultura y Recreación, Tuxtla, Gutierrez.
Peter Mathews: Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), has done field work in Palenque, Chiapas, Yucatán, Guatamala and Copán; is author of numerous articles on Maya art and iconography and glyphic inscriptions, including Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, vol. 6, part 1: Tonina (1983), Maya Hieroglyph workbooks for workshops at the University of Texas at Austin and Cleveland State University, and a series of articles in Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence, ed. T. P. Culbert (1991); a founding member of the Palenque Mesa Redonda and Dumbarton Oaks mini-conferences devoted to the decoding of Maya writing.
Jeff Kowalski (Art History, Northern Illinois University); Ph.D. from Yale in Art History with a specialization in Pre-Columbian Art; Fulbright, J. Paul Getty, Dumbarton Oaks and National Geographic grants for research and exploration; has done archival research in Mexico and extensive field work at Uxmal, Yucatán and Copán, Honduras; editor of the forthcoming Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol (Oxford), and author of Guide to Uxmal and the Puuc Region: Kabah, Sayil and Labna (Mérida, 1990), The House of the Governor, a Maya Palace at Uxmal, Yucatán, México (U of Oklahoma, 1987), Rulers, Deities, and Death. Maya Ceramics from the Duke University Museum Collection and Other Examples of Pre-Columbian Art (exhibition catalogue, Northern Illinois University, 1984), and numerous articles on Yucatecan art and archaeology.
Rafael Cobos, Professor on the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán, currently engaged in field research surveying and mapping for the Chichen ltzá Archaeological Project, has also been Co-director of the Yaxuna Archaeological Project, and worked on the Cupul, the Sayil, and the Cozumel Archaeological Projects, among others; has delivered numerous conference papers in México, Canada and the United States; is author of numerous Yucatecan archaeological reports, notably on shells and shell ornaments in Caracol and Chichen Itzá, and is author of Síntesis de la Arqueología de El Salvador (1994).
Rolena Adorno: Spanish/Portuguese, Yale University; co-editor with John Murra of Guaman Poma, El Primer Nueva Cronica Y Buen Gobierno (3 vols., 1980), and author of Guaman Poma/Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (1986), and the forthcoming The Road to Panuco: An Edition and Critical Study of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Account of the Expedition Sent to Conquer Florida in 1527, co-authored with Patrick Pautz; numerous articles in international journals on colonial Andean writing and on Spanish representations of the encounter in New Spain, including "Discourses on Colonialism: Bernal Diaz, Las Casas, and the Twentieth-Century Reader" (MLN 103:2 [1988]) and "The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: the authority of eyewitness testimony in the writing of history," William and Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992).
Saul Sosnowski: Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland; has published and edited books and numerous articles on Latin American literature, and lectured and given papers widely at professional conferences in the United States and internationally; has held many grants and fellowships and has had wide experience in consulting and advising grant projects, including the project directors' 1992 and 1995 NEH Institutes.
Other Invited Speakers:
Luis Luján Muñoz : Consejo Nacional para la Protección de Antigua Guatemala.
Marco Antonio To Quiñonez: Consejo Nacional para la Protección de Antigua Guatemala.
Elizabeth Bell: local guide & historian, Antigua, Guatemala.
Walter Morris: Executive Director, Na Bolom, San Cristóbal, Chiapas.
Jan de Vos: historian of Chiapas, and the Lacandon Maya.
Francisco Fernandez: Facultad de Ciencias Antropologicas, Universidad Autononomo de Yucatán.
The Maya World in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatán
Antigua (June 8- 25); Chiapas (June 26-July 5); Yucatán (July 6-19)
DAILY SCHEDULE
Note: Seminar topics and key reading assignments are listed for each day; most assignments will be supplied in Institute Readers [items marked R], except for key texts [items marked T], which it will be the responsibility of participants to obtain prior to the Institute. A limited number of readings [marked L] will be available in an Institute 'lending library.' Morning seminars meet 9:00-Noon, unless otherwise announced; transportation and fieldtrip times will be announced.
Antigua, Guatemala (June 8- June 25)
Sun June 8 Arrival of Institute participants in Guatemala City ; participants will be met at airport and transferred to Antigua. Informal gatherings.
M 9 Seminar (at CIRMA -- Centro de lnvestigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica):
Saul Sosnowski (Spanish and Portuguese, Univ. of Maryland); keynote address,: "The Legacy of the Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Developing a Strengthened Curriculum."
Angel Garcia-Zambrano (Art, Universidad de Zacatecas): "Maya Adaptations to Spanish Cultural Tenets in the New Kingdom of Guatemala"
Afternoon: guided site visits to monuments of colonial Antigua: Garcia-Zambrano: tour of Las Capuchinas with Marco Antonio To Quiñonez, Consevateur for the National Council for the Preservation of Antigua.
Reading: Angel García-Zambrano, "Early Colonial Evidence of Pre-Columbian
Rituals of Foundation," Seventh Palengue Round Table, 1989, vol. ed., Virginia Fields; series ed., Merle Greene Robertson (San Francisco: The Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1994): 217-27 [R]
Sidney Markman, Colonial Architecture of Antigua Guatemala (1966), 1-19, 35-38, 76-81 [R]
Eve. reception dinner; remarks by Institute directors Dr. George L. Scheper and Dr. Florence Starr Hesler and project manager David A. Berry.
T 10 Seminar (at CIRMA): "Antigüeño: A Baroque Manifestation of Spanish American Art and Architecture": García-Zambrano.
Afternoon: guided site visits to colonial monuments: García-Zambrano; tour of Santo Domingo with local architectural historian Elizabeth Bell.
Reading: Verle Lincoln Annis, The Architecture of Antigua Guatemala (U of San Carlos of Guatemala, 1968), selections [R]
Joseph A. Baird, The Churches of Mexico (U of Calif., 1962), charts, illustrations, glossary [R]
Richard D. Perry, More Maya Missions: Exploring Colonial Chiapas (Santa Barbara:Espadaña Press, 1994), Glossary: 121-22 [R]
W 11 7:30 a.m.: depart for study-visit to Guatemala City, its historical environment; iconography of Baroque retablos and religious sculpture; Museo Popol Vuh (Maya and Spanish colonial collections); National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Museo lxchel (indigenous costume): Luis Luján Muñoz (Director, National Council for the Preservation of Antigua, Guatemala).
R 12 Seminar (at CIRMA): Contemporary Mayan Textiles: Linda Green (Anthropology, Columbia U)
Afternoon: weaving demonstrations/discussions with local weavers.
Reading: Tracy Bachrach Ehlers, "Belts, Business, and Bloomingdale's: An Alternative Model for Guatemalan Artisan Development," in June Nash, ed. Crafts in the World Market (SUNY: Albany, 1993): 181-198. R]
Robert S. Carlsen, "Discontinuous Warps: Textile Production and Ethnicity in Contemporary Highland Guatemala," in Nash, Crafts in the World Market, 199-224. [R]
Carol Hendrickson, Weaving Identities (Austin: U of Texas P, 1995), chaps. 1- 3 [L]
F 13 Seminar (at CIRMA): "The People of Corn: Recent Changes in Economic Practices Among the Maya": Green.
Reading: Carol Smith, "The Militarization of Civil Society in Guatemala: Economic Reorganization as a Continuation of War," Latin American Perspectives 17.4 (1990 ): 8-41 [RI;
Kurt Petersen, The Maquiladora Revolution in Guatemala, Ocasional Papers, series 2 (Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, 1992) [L]
Eve.: prepare for overnight trip to Chichicastenango.
S 14 8 a.m.-10 am.: seminar (at CIRMA): "Complexity of Mayan Religious Practices Today": Green.
Depart immediately after seminar for overnight trip to Chichicastenango, via Lake Atitlán. Lunch and time to see Lake Atitlán; depart at 3 p.m. for Chichicastenango.
Reading: Richard Wilson, "Machine Guns and Mountain Spirits: the Cultural Effects of State Repression Among the Q'eqchi of Guatemala," Critique of Anthropology 11.1 (1991): 33-61. [R]
David Stoll, Between Two Armies in the IxilTowns of Guatemala (NY: Columbia UP, 1993), Preface & chap. 1, 'La Situación (2-24), & chap. 6, "The Holy Ghost in Northern Quiché," (166-195) [R]
Linda Green,"Shifting Affiliations: Mayan Widows and Evangelicos in Guatemala," in Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America, ed. Garrard-Burnett and David Stoll (Phila.: Temple UP, 1993) [L]
Tedlock, Barbara, "A Phenomenological Apprroach to Religious Change in Highland Guatemala," in History of Conquest: Thirty Years Later, ed. Carl Kendall (Albany: SUNY P, 1983): 235-246. [R]
Su 15 7 a.m.-10 a.m.: tour of Chichicastenango, including church of Santo Tomás, museum, and shrine of Pascual Abaj; 10 a.m.-l p.m.: market and lunch. Depart 1 p.m. for return to Antigua, via Iximche, Tecpan.
M 16 Seminar (at CIRMA): Maya Voices and Maya themes in Literature: focus on Rigoberta Menchú and the genre of "testimonia": Mary Louise Pratt (Spanish & Comp Lit, Stanford U)
Reading: Rigoberta Menchú, 1, Rigoberta Menchú/ An Indian Woman in Guatemala, ed. Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, tr. Ann Wright (NY: Verso, 1984) [T]
Marc Zimmerman, "Rigoberta Menchú Tum," in Literature and Resistance in Guatemala: Textual Modes and Cultural Politics from El Señor Presidente to Rigoberta Menchú, Monographs in International Studies, Latin American Series 22 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995), vol. 11, 48-72. [R]
T 17 Seminar (at CIRMA): Mary Louise Pratt: "Maya Voices and Maya Themes in Literature: focus on Asturias & Popol Vuh"; and María Elena Bernal-García (Art, Universidad de Zacatecas): "The Popol Vuh's Narrative Structure. Ritual Underpinnings in the Planning and Sustenance of the City of Copán"
Reading: Miguel Angel Asturias, Men of Maize, Gerald Martin Critical Edition (UNESCO Collección Archivos, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1993). [T]
Marc Zimmermann, 'Asturias and the New Literature,' in Literature and Resistance in Guatemala (Athens, Ohio: 1995), vol. 1, 129-38. [R]
Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, tr. Dennis Tedlock (1985). [T]
Justin Kerr, "The Myth of the Popol Vuh as an Instrument of Power," in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The Univ. Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 109-121 [R]
Dennis Tedlock, "The Popol Vuh as a Hieroglyphic Book,"in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The University Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 229-240 [R]
María Elena BernalGarcía, "Carving Mountains in a Blue/Green Bowl: Mythological Urban Planning in Mesoamerica," Ph.D. diss. (U of Texas, 1993): "Appendix C, Popol Vuh: Sequence of Mythical and Historical Events," 421-423 and "Appendix G, Myth-History Structure in the Popol Vuh," 429-430 [R]
Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): 17-33 & Figs. 1:1 & 1:5 [R]
Eve: prepare for early departure for overnight trip to Copán.
W 18 5:00 a.m.: depart by coach for Copán; breakfast stop about 7; study visit to Quiriguá, followed by late lunch; arrive Copán about 5 p.m. Overnight in Copán, Honduras.
En-route seminar/discussion with Michael D. Coe (Anthropology, Yale).
Reading: Michael Coe, Breaking the Maya Code (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1993). [T] Robert Sharer, "Diversity and Continuity in Maya Civilization: Quirigua as a Case Study," in Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence, ed. T. Patrick Culbert (Cambridge UP, 1991): 180-98 [RI
R 19 Morning seminar on site; afternoon field study in Copán: layout and history of ceremonial center; architectural forms and inscriptions: Michael D. Coe (Anthropology, Yale).
Reading: David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): chap 8. [T]
Michael Coe, The Maya, 5th ed. (NY: Thames & Hudson,1993), esp. 93-98. [T]
William Fash, Scribes, Warriors & Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1991): chaps. 6 & 7. [R]
Jeff Karl Kowalski & William L. Fash, 'Symbolism of the Maya Ball Game at Copán: Synthesis and New Aspects," Sixth Palenque Roundtable, 1986, Merle Greene Robertson, General Editor; Virgina M. Fields, Volume Editor (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991), 59-67 [R]
F 20 Morning: field-study on-site in Copán: Coe. After lunch, depart at 2:00 p.m. for return by coach to Antigua; arrive about 7 p.m.
Reading: Barbara Fash, et al. "Investigations of a Classic Maya Council House at Copán, Honduras." Journal of Field ArchaeoIogy, 19.4 (1992): 419-442. David Stuart, "Hieroglyphs and Archaeology at Copán," Ancient Mesoamerica 3 (1992): 169-84. [R]
Linda Schele, 'Interim report on the Iconography of the Architectural Sculpture," Copán Note 19 (Copán Mosaics Project, Austin: Nov 1986): 1-4 [R]
John L. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (1841, rpt. NY: Dover, 1969, 2 vols), vol. 1, chaps 5-7 [R].
S 21 Seminar (at CIRMA): archaeology and history.of the Pet6n Maya area:
Peter Harrison (Archaeology, UNM)
Reading: Peter Harrison, "Ancient Maya Architecture" in Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, ed. Charles Gallenkamp and R. E. Johnson (NY: Abrams, 1985): 84-96. [R]
George Kubler, "The Design of Space in Maya Architecture," in Studies in Ancient American and European Art/ The Collected Essays of George Kubler, ed. Thomas F. Reese (New Haven: Yale UP, 1985): 242-49 [R]
George Kubler, The Art and Architecture of Ancient America (Penguin, 1984), chap. 7: "The Maya Tradition: Architecture," 201-228, & chap. 8: "The Maya Tradition: Sculpture and Painting," 247-285 [RI]
Eve: prepare for early departure for overnight trip to Tikal.
S 22 5:00 a.m.: depart for airport for flight to Flores, and transfer to Tikal, for overnight fieldtrip.
Afternoon: orientation to site: Harrison. Overnight in Tikal Reading: Peter Harrison,"Tikal: Selected Topics" in City States of the Maya: Art and Architecture, ed. E. P. Benson (Rocky Mountain Institute for Pre-Columbian Studies, 1986): 45-71 [RI
David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings. the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): chaps 4 & 5. [T]
M 23 Tikal: study tour of archaeological site and inscriptions: "The First Stage in the Planning of Tikal: the North Acropolis and the Mundo Perdido Section." Harrison, with Bernal-García . Overnight in Tikal.
Reading: Juan Pedro Laporte and Vilma Fialko, "New Perspectives on Old Problems: Dynastic References for the Early Classic at Tikal,' in Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, ed. Flora Clancy and Peter Harrison (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990), 33-66. [RI
Christopher Jones, "The Future of Tikal," in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The University Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 241-45 [R]
T 24 Tikal: morning study tour of archaeological site and inscriptions: "The City-State of Tikal: Its Allies and Enemies." Harrison and Bernal-García.
After lunch, depart at 2 p.m. for return via flight from Flores to Guatemala City, transfer to Antigua; arrive about 6:30 p.m.
Eve.: prepare for morning departure from Guatemala.
W 25 7:00 a.m.: depart by coach for Huehuetenango, via Maya villages of San Andrés Xecul, San Cristóbal Totonicapan and, time permitting, Zunil, accompanied by our local arrangements agent, Marco Antonio Tello. Overnight in Huehuetenango.
Chiapas: San Cristóbal/ Palenque (June 26-July 5)
R 26 8:00 a.m.: depart by coach via Zaculeu for Mexican border; at La Mesilla, we change coaches and personel, and continue on to San Cristóbal. Enroute discussion of the history of colonial Chiapas led by Angel García- Zambrano. Check-in at Na Bolom, our study-center and place of residence in San Cristóbal.
Afternoon seminar at Na Bolom: welcome and guest lecture on "Living Traditions of the Maya in Chiapas" by Mayanist Chip Morris; followed by seminar on "The Mission of Las Casas, and the history of Chiapas from the Conquest to the Zapatista Movement," by Chiapas historian Jan de Vos.
Reading: Witness/ Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas, ed. George Sanderlin (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, [1971] 1992): "Foreward" by Gustavo Gutiérrez, & chaps. 1,9-14, 23-26, & 28 [R]
Murdo MacLeod, "Dominican Explanations for Revolts and Their Suppression in Colonial Chiapas, 1545-1715," in Indian-Religious Relations in Colonial Spanish America, ed. Susan E. Ramirez. Foreign and Comparative Studies/ Latin American Series 9 (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1989): 39-53. [R]
Christine Eber & Brenda Rosenbaum, "That We May Serve Beneath Your Hands and Feet: Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas, Mexico," in June Nash, ed. Crafts in the World Market (SUNY: Albany, 1993): 154-179 [R]
F 27 Seminar (at Sna Jolobil): "Sacred Torch, Sacred Mirror: Mayan Cultural Empowerment": Robert M. Laughlin (Anthropology, Smithsonian)
Afternoon visits to two Maya cultural cooperatives, La Fomma and Sna Jtz'ibajom.
Reading: Donald Frischmann, "New Mayan Theatre in Chiapas: Anthropology, Literacy and Social Drama," in Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexualily, and Theatricality in Latin/o America (1994): 213-238 [R]
Cynthia Steele, "'A Woman Fell into the River': Negotiating Female Subjects in Contemporary Mayan Theatre," in Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America (1994): 239-256 [R]
Miriam Laughlin, "Arts: the Drama of Mayan Women," Ms. 2.1 (1991): 88-89 [R]
S 28 Study-visit to Tzeltal Maya village of Tenejapa and its Casa de Cultura: Laughlin.
Reading: Robert Laughlin, "From All for All: A Tzotzil-Tzeltal Tragicomedy," American Anthropologist 97.3 (1995): 528-542 [R)
S 29 Study-visit to Tzotzil Maya villages of San Juan Chamula and Zinacantcán and its Black Lord Museum: Laughlin.
Reading: The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacantán, collected and tr. Robert Laughlin, ed. Carol Karasik (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988): Introduction:1-21; selected dream and selected tales. [RI [Note: reissued as Mayan Tales From Zincantán/ Dreams and Stories From the People of the Bat (1996).
George Collier, with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (Oakland: A Food First Book/ Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1994). [L]
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M 30 Seminar at Na Bolom: "Anitgüeño and Oaxaqueño Traits in the Architecture of San Cristóbal de las Casas": García-Zambrano.
Afternoon: study-visits to colonial churches and monuments.
Reading: Richard D. Perry, More Maya Missions: Exploring Colonial Chiapas (Santa Barbara: Espadaña Press, 1994): chap. 1, 24-61. [R]
Sidney Markman, Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas México (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1984): 3-8, 19-32, 63-69, 84-92, 153-157, 159-193, 203-206, 271-272, 293-294 [R]
Sidney Markman, "The Church of Santo Domingo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas," Boletin del CIHE/UCU, 23 (Caracas, Venezuela, 1978): 34-55 [R]
July
T 1 Begin 5-day study of Palenque and Usumacinta River Maya culture areas:
Peter Mathews (Archaeology, Calgary).
Dep San Cristóbal for Palenque, via Tonina. Study visit at Tonina.
Overnight at Palenque.
Reading: Peter Mathews, "Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs," in Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence, ed. T. Patrick Culbert (Cambridge UP, 1991): 19-29 [R]
Peter Mathews, "Tonina," Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, vol. 6, part 1 (Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1983) [R]
W 2 Full day field-study in Palenque at archaeological site: Mathews. Overnight at Palenque.
Reading: David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): chap. 6 [T]
R 3 Begin three-day Usumacinta River Maya sites field-trip; departure by vans to Bonampak trailhead, for 1.5 kilometer hike in to site; study visit of Bonampak: Mathews. Hike out and continue by boat to Yaxchilán.
Camp overnight at Yaxchilán.
Reading: Mary Ellen Miller, The Murals of Bonampak (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986): chaps. 2, 5 & 7 [R].
F 4 Full day field-study at Yaxchilcán: Mathews.
Camp overnight at Yaxchilán.
Reading: David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): chap. 7 [T]
S 5 Morning field-study at Yaxchilán: Mathews.
Return and overnight at Palenque.
Reading: Carolyn Tate, Yaxchilán: The Desian of a Maya Ceremonial City (Austin: U of Texas P, 1992): chaps. 1, 3, 5 & "Conclusions" [R]
Eve.: prepare for early morning departure for Villa Hermosa and Yucatán.
[Option for participants unable to undertake camping field-trip]
R 3: Additional field-study at Palenque. Seminar: "The Sacred Landscape of Palenque."
Bernal-García.
Reading: Linda Schele, "Sacred Site and World-View at Palenque," in Mesoamerican Sites and Worldviews: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 16 and 17th, 1976, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Washington: DORLC, 1981): 87-117 [R]
David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): illustrations from chaps. 6 & 7: dynastic iconography of Palenque and Yaxchilan [R]
Linda Schele, "Architectural Development and Political History at Palenque," in City-States of the Maya: Art and Architecture, ed. Eliz. Benson (Denver: Rocky Mountain lnst. for Pre-columbian Studies, 1986): 110-137 [R)
4: Additional field study at Palenque. Seminar: "The Maya Myth of Creation in the
Classic Period: the Group of the Cross and its Symbolism": Bernal-García.
Reading: Linda Schele, "House Names and Dedication Rituals at Palenque," in Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, ed. Flora Clancy and Peter Harrison (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990), 143-157 [RI
Linda Schele, "Accession Iconography of Chan-Bahlum in the Group of the Cross at Palenque," Proceedings of the Segunda Mesa Redonda de Palenque, ed. Merle Greene Robertson (1976): 9-34 [R]
S 5: Weather permitting, one-day flight by small plane to Bonampak and Yaxchilán, for site study-visits "Succession and War Rituals in the Murals of Bonampak" and "Women: The Knot-Tying dynasties at Yaxchilin": Bernal-García.
Reading: see above, for July 3-5.
Eve.: prepare for early morning departure for Villa Hermosa and Yucatán.
Su 6 Early morning transfer by coach to Villa Hermosa (time permitting, possible visit to Parque-Museo La Venta and CICOM/ Regional Museum of Anthropology, followed by afternoon flight to Mérida.
Mérida, Yucatán (July 6- July 19)
M 7 Begin 6-day study of Yucatecan Maya culture areas with Jeff Kowalski (Art History, Northern Illinois U) and Rafael ["Rach"] Cobos (Anthropology, Universidad Autonomo de Yucatán)
Morning seminar (at University) on Yucatecan Maya culture.
Reading: Eugene Wilson, "Physical Geography of the Yucatan Peninsula," in Yucatan: A World Apart, ed. Edward Terry and Edward Mosely, (Tuscaloosa, U of Alabama P, 1980), 5-40. [RI
T 8 8 a.m.: Depart for tour of Mérida, followed by field trip to Dzibilchaltun ruins and Museum of the Maya People; lunch and study visit at Yucatecan port of
Progreso (note: opportunity for swimming): Kowalski and Cobos.
Reading: E. Wyllys Andrews, Dzibilchaltun: Official Guide (México, D.F.: INAH, 1980). [R]
Eve.: prepare for four-day, three-night field trip to Uxmal and Chichen Itza.
W 9 Begin three-overnight fieldtrip to Puuc area and Chichén with study-visit to Uxmal: Kowalski and Cobos. [Opportunity for evening sound and light.] Overnight in Uxmal.
Reading: Michael Coe, The Maya, 5th ed. (NY: Thames & Hudson,1993), 114-148. [T] Jeff Kowalski, "Uxmal: A Terminal Classic Maya Capital in Northern Yucatan," in City-States of the Maya: Art and Architecture, ed. Eliz. Benson (Denver: Rocky Mountain Inst. for Pre-columbian Studies, 1986): 138-171. [R]
Jeff Kowalski, "The Puuc as Seen from Uxmal,' in Hidden Among the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula, Acta Mesoamericana 7, ed. Hanns Prem (Möckmühl: Verlag Von Flemming, 1994): 93-120. [R]
Nicholas Dunning and Jeff Kowalski, "Lords of the Hills: Classic Maya Settlement Patterns and Political Iconography in the Puuc region, Mexico," Ancient Mesoamerica 5 (1986): 63-95. [R]
The Ancient Maya, ed. R. J. Sharer ([revision of Sylvanus Morley, 1946, 1947, 1956, 1983] Stanford: Stanford U P, 1994): selections [R]
R 10 Field study at Kabah and Sayil: Kowalski and Cobos; lunch in Oxkutzcab;
study-visits to colonial churches of Ticul and Mani: García-Zambrano. Overnight at Chichén Itzá.
Reading: Jeremy Sabloff and Gair Tourtellot, "Beyond Temples and Palaces: Recent Settlement Pattern Research at the Ancient Maya City of Sayil (19831985)," in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The University Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 155-60. [R]
Ralph Roys, "Conquest Sites and the Subsequent Destruction of Maya Architecture in the Interior of Northern Yucatán," Contributions to American Anthrolpology and History, 11 (1952): 129-182. [R]
Richard and Rosalind Perry, Maya Missions/ Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches of Yucatan (Santa Barbara: Espadaña Press, 1988): 114-18, 126-34. [R]
F 11 Full-day study-visit at Chichén ltzá: the Toltec/Maya phenomenon: Kowalski and Cobos. Overnight at Chichén ltzá.
Reading: David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1990): chap. 9. [T]
Linnea Wren, "Chicheacute;n Itzaacute;: the Site and its People," in Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichén ltzá, ed. Clemency C. Coggins and Orrin Shane (Austin: U of Texas P, 1984): 13-22. [R]
Karl Taube, "The Iconography of Toltec Period Chichen Itza," in Hidden Among the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula, Acta Mesoamericana 7, ed. Hanns Prem (Möckmühl: Verlag Von Flemming, 1994): 212-246. [R]
Ruth Krochock & David Freidel, "Ballcourts and the Evolution of Political Rhetoric at Chichén ltzá," in Hidden Among the Hills, ed. Hanns Prem ((Möckmühl: Verlag Von Flemming, 1994): 358-75. [R]
Linnea Wren and Peter Schmidt, "Elite Interaction during the Terminal Classic Period: New Evidence from Chichén Itzá,' in Classic Maya Political History , ed. Patrick Culbert (Cambridge U P, 1991): 199-225. [R]
S 12 Morning field-study at Chichén Itzá and Yaxuná: Kowalski and Cobos. On return to Mérida, study-visits to colonial churches at Yaxcaba and Sotuta: García-Zambrano.
Reading: Richard and Rosalind Perry, Maya Missions/ Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches of Yucatan (Santa Barbara: Espadaña Press, 1988): 189-97. [R]
John McAndrew, The 0pen-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century México (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U P, 1965): 340-67, 518-24. [R]
Su 13 Free day, Mérida.
M 14 Free day, Mérida.
T 15 Seminar (at University): narratives of conquest and resistance in Yucatán: focus on Landa's Relación: Rolena Adorno (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale)
Reading: Hernan Cortes, Letters From Mexico, tr. & ed. Anthony Pagden (New Haven: Yale U P, 1986): from First Letter, pp. 3-23 & 449-455. [R]
Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, tr. J. M. Cohen (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963): 14-67. [RI
Diego de Landa, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest [Relación de las cosas de Yucatan], tr. Wm. Gates (NY: Dover: 1978). [T]
W 16 Seminar (at University): narratives of Maya/Spanish relations in colonial Yucatán; texts of Chilam Balam: Adorno.
Reading: Grant Jones, "Rebellious Prophets," in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The University Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 197-204. [RI
Bruce Love, "Divination and Prophecy in Yucatan," in New Theories on the Ancient Maya, ed. Elin Danien and Robert Sharer (Philadelphia: The University Museum, U of Pennsylvania, 1992): 205-216. [R]
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, ed. & tr. Ralph Roys (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1967): 80-84, 119-125, 132-169 [R]
Heaven Born Merida and its Destiny: the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, ed. & tr. Munro Edmonson (Austin: U of Texas P, 1986): 73-79, 115-120, 127-149. [R]
R 17 Seminar (at University): Spanish/ Maya relations: Colonial to Modern Periods: Adorno.
Afternoon study-tour of colonial Mérida: García-Zambrano.
Reading: Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests/ Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan 1517-1570 (Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1987). [T]
Richard and Rosalind Perry, Maya Missions/ Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches of Yucatan (Santa Barbara: Espadaña Press, 1988): 92-105. [R]
F 18 Seminar (at University): Spanish/Maya relations in the modern period: the Caste War to the present: Francisco Fernandez (U Autonoma de Yucatán).
Roundtable with Institute directors : Institute business and follow-ups.
Reading: Victoria Bricker, "The Caste War of Yucatán: the History of a Myth and the Myth of History," in Anthropology and History in Yucatán, ed. Grant Jones (Austin: U of Texas P, 1973): 251-58. [R]
Asael Hansen, "Change in the Class System of Merida, Yucatan, 1875-1935," in Yucatan: A World Apart, ed. Edward Terry and Edward Mosely (Tuscaloosa, U of Alabama P, 1980), 123-141. [R]
Gilbert Joseph, "Revolution from Without: the Mexican Revolution in Yucatan, 1910-1940," in Yucatan: A World Apart, ed. Terry & Mosley, 142-71. [R]
Allan Burns, "The Caste War in the 1970's: Present-Day Accounts from Village Quintana Roo," in Anthropology and History in Yucatán, ed. Grant Jones (Austin: U of Texas P, 1973): 259-73. [R]
Evening: Farewell dinner and gathering.
S 19 Return: Mérida to U.S.
Supplementary and Recommended Readings
Angel Garcia-Zambrano:
John McAndrew, The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century México (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard U P, 1965): 124-35, 174-89, 279-302. [L]
Maud Oakes, The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious Rituals (NY:
Pantheon, 195 1): chaps. 1.4 & 2.3 & 2.7. [L]
George Kubler & Martin Soria, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American
Dominions 1500-1800 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1959; 1969): pp. 82-85, 169-171. [L]
Linda Green:
Linda Green, "Fear as a Way of Life," Cultural Anthropology 9.2 (1994): 227-256. [L]
Linda Asturias de Barrios, Comalapa: Native Dress and its Significance (Guatemala City: lxchel Museum
Pub., 1985) [L]
Margot Blum Schevill, Evolution in Textile Design from the Highlands of Guatemala. Occasional Papers, No. 1 (Berkeley: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1985). [L]
Margot Blum Schevill, Maya Textiles of Guatemala (Austin, Univ of Texas P, 1993): chap. 1, 'The Communicative Nature of Cloth and Clothing," pp. 3-17. [L]
James Dunkerley, Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America (London: Verson, 1988): chap. 9: "Guatemala: Garrison State." [L]
Robert Carmack, Rebels of Highland Guatemala/the Quiché Mayas of Momostenango (Norman: U of OK, 1995).
Robert Carmack, ed. Harvest of Violence: the Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991): chaps. 4, 8 & 9. [L]
Carol Smith, Guatemala Indians and the State (Austin: University of Texas P, 1992).
Michael Conroy, et al., A Cautionary Tale: Failed U.S. Development Policy in Central America (A Food First Book: Lynne Rienner Pub., 1996). may be ordered through Subterranean Co.: 1-800-274-7826).
Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town (Austin, Univ of Texas P, 1987).
Rachel Garst and Tom Barry, Feeding the Crisis (Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1990).
Ricardo Falla, Massacres in the Jungle, lxcan Guatemala 1975-1982 (Boulder: Westview, 1993).
Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest (Berkeley: U of California P, 1993)
Kay Warren, Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemala Town (Austin, U of Texas, 1978).
Richard Wilson, Mayan Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1995).
Mary Louise Pratt:
Mary Louise Pratt, "Me Ilamo Rigoberta Menchú: Autoethnography and the Recoding of Citizenship," in
Teaching and Testimony/ Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom, ed. Allen
Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996): 57-72. [L]
Stephen Benz, "Culture Shock and /, Rigoberta Menchú,' in Teaching and Testimony/ Rigoberta Menchú
and the North American Classroom, ed. Allen Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz (Albany: SUNY
Press, 1996): 19-26. [L]
Susanne Jonas, The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and U.S. Power (Boulder: Westview P, 1991)
Victor Montejo, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village, tr. Victor Perera (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1987).
Victor Montejo, The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables, tr.Wallace Kaufman (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1991).
Mayan Folktales/ Folklore from Lake Atitlán. Guatemala, Tr. & ed. James Sexton (NY: Doubleday, 1992).
Fernando Peñalosa, Tales and Legend of the Q'Aniob'al Maya (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA: Yax Te' Press,
1995). [Note: to order, use tel/fax: 310-377-8763].
Michael Coe:
Michael Coe, Breaking the Maya Code (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1993).
William Fash, Scribes, Warriors & Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya (NY: Thames and
Hudson, 1991).
Mary Ellen Miller, "Copan, Honduras: Conference with a Perished City,' in City-States of the Maya:
Art and Architecture, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Denver: Rocky Mountain Institute for Pre-Columbian
Studies, 1986): 72-108. [L]
William L. Fash and David S. Stuart, "Dynastic History and Cultural Evolution at Copan, Honduras," in Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence, ed. T. Patrick Culbert (SAR, Cambridge U P, 1991): 147-179. [L]
David Webster, ed. "The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras." Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Pre-
Columbian Art and Archaeology, 29. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1989. [L]
Claude Baudez, Maya Sculpture of Copán: the Iconography (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1994). [L] [caveat from Mike Coe: "I don't agree with much of what he says, but the pictures are important"!]
Richard Williamson, "Excavations, Interpretations and Implications of the Earliest Structures Beneath Structure 1OL-26 at Copán, Honduras, in Eighth Palenque Roundtable, ed. Merle Greene Robertson (San Francisco: The Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1996): 169-175. [L]
Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia:
David Freidel, Linda Schele and Joy Parker, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
(NY: Wm. Morrow, 1993): pp. 9-14 ("Personal Note") & chaps. 3 & 6. [L]
Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynas!y and Ritual in Maya Art (NY: George
Braziller, in association with the Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1986).
Barbara Tedlock, Time and the Highland Maya (Albuquerque: U of NM, 1982): chaps. 4, "The Calendar"
(88-99), 5,"The Day Lords" (106-127) & 8, "Conclusions" (172-178). [L]
Claude F. Baudez, "The Cross-Pattern at Copán: Forms, Rituals, and Meanings," Sixth Palenque Roundtable, 1986., Merle Greene Robertson, General Editor; Virgina M. Fields, Volume Editor (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991), 81-88. [L]
Anthony Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Austin: U of Texas P, 1980): from chap. V:
"Astroarchaeology and the Place of Astronomy in Ancient American Architecture," 240-245, 277-280. [L]
Anthony Aveni and Horst Hartung's, Maya City Planning and the Calendar Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, 76.7 (Philadelphia, 1986).
Dorie Reents-Budet, Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Durham: Duke
UP, 1994).
Peter Harrison:
Peter Harrison, "So the Seeds Shall Grow: Some Introductory Comments," in Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture, ed. Peter D. Harrison and B. L. Turner (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978): 1- 11. [L]
Gordon R. Willey, "Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture: A Contemporary Summation," in Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture, ed. Peter Harrison and B. L. Turner (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978): 325-35. [L]
R. A. Fasquelle & J. A. Valdes, Copán and Tikal: Secrets of Two Maya Cities (San José, Costa Rica,
1994). [L]
Genevieve Michel, The Rulers of Tikal/ A Historical Reconstruction and Field Guide to the Stelae
(Guatemala, C.A.: Publicaciones Vista, 1989) [L]
Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, ed. Flora Clancy and Peter Harrison (Albuquerque: U of New
Mexico P, 1990).
Jan de Vos:
Jan de Vos, La Paz de Dios Y Del Rey/ La conquista de la selva lacandona 1525-1821 (México: Fondo de
Cultura Económica, 1988).
Jan de Vos, Vivir en Frontera/ La Experiencia de los Indios de Chiapas (Mdxico, D.F.: Centro de
Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1994.
Jan de Vos, San Cristóbal: ciudad colonial (Mdxico, D.F.: INAH, 1986).
Victor Perera and Robert D. Bruce, The Last Lords of Palenque/ the Lacondon Mayas of the Mexican
Rain Forest (Berkeley: U of California P, 1982).
Rolena Adorno, The Intellectual Life of Bartolomé de las Casas (Tulane: Graduate School of Tulane U.,
1992). [L]
Henry Rupp Wagner, with Helen Rand Parish, The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas
(Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1967).
Walter "Chip" Morris:
Walter Morris, Jr. and Jeffrey Jay Foxx, Living Maya (NY: Abrams, 1987).
Robert Laughlin:
Mayan Tales from Zinacatán/ Dreams and Stories from the People of the Bat. Collected and translated by
Robert M. Laughlin; edited by Carol Karasik. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
[Note: new reissue title of The People of the Bat, 1988, the edition used in Reader III selections]
Christine Eber, Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town/ Water of Hope- Water of Sorrow (Austin:
U of Texas P, 1995).
Carter Wilson, Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1974).
George Collier, with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
(Oakland: A Food First Book/ Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1994). [L]
Note: Can be ordered by calling Subterranean Company: 1-800-274-7826.
Peter Mathews:
Mary Ellen Miller, The Murals of Bonampak (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986).
Carolyn Tate, Yaxchilán: the Design of a Maya Ceremonial City (Austin: U of Texas P, 1992).
Peter Mathews, Maya HierogIyph Weekend October 26-27, 1991 (Cleveland State University, 1991) [L]
David Stuart, "Royal Auto-Sacrifice Among the Maya/ A Study of Image and Meaning." RES 7/8 (Spring/Autumn, 1984): 5-20. [L]
Clemency Chase Coggins, "Classic Maya Metaphors of Death and Life." RES 16 (Autumn 1988): 65-84. [LI
Jeff Kowalski and Rafael Cobos:
David Freidel and Linda Schele, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm
Morrow, 1990): chap. 9. [L]
Linnea H. Wren, "The Great Ball Court Stone from Chichén Itzá." Sixth Palenque Roundtable, 1986, Merle Greene Robertson, General Editor; Virgina M. Fields, Volume Editor (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991): 51-58. [L]
George Stuart and Gene Stuart, The Lost Kingdoms of the Maya (Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1993). [L]
Rolena Adorno:
Nancy Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule/ The Collective Enterprise ot Survival (Princeton: Princeton U P, 1984).
Grant Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule/ Time and History on a Colonial Frontier (Albuquerque: U
ot New Mexico P, 1989).
Francisco Fernandez:
Nelson Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan (Stanford: Stanford U P, 1964). [L]
Edward Davis Terry, 'A Panorama of Literature in Yucatan,' in Yucatan: A World Apart, ed. Edward
Terry and Edward Mosely (Tuscaloosa, U of Alabama P, 1980): 264-319. [L]
Paul Sullivan, Unfinished Conversations/ Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars (Berkeley: U of
California P, 1989).
Participants' Required Text List
Please note that the Institute scholars have identified these texts as basic to their seminars; it is the responsibility of each participant to acquire these texts prior to the Institute and to bring them to the relevant seminars. Most other readings in the Daily Schedule will be supplied in Institute Readers which will be sent to each participant well before the start of the Institute.
Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (NY: Wm Morrow, 1 990)
Michael Coe, The Maya, 5th ed. (NY: Thames & Hudson,1993)
Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, tr. Dennis Tedlock (NY: Simon & Shuster,1985)
Miguel Angel Asturias, Men of Maize, Gerald Martin Critical Edition (UNESCO Collección
Archivos, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1993).
Rigoberta Menchú, 1. Rigoberta Menchú/ An Indian Woman in Guatemala, ed. Elisabeth
Burgos-Debray, tr. Ann Wright (NY: Verso, 1984)
Diego de Landa, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest [Relación de las cosas de Yucatan], tr. Wm.
Gates (NY: Dover: 1978)
Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests/ Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan 1517-1570
(Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1987).
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In addition, the following titles are strongly recommended:
David Freidel, Linda Schele and Joy Parker, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the
Shaman's Path (NY: William Morrow, 1993).
Michael Coe, Breakinig the Maya Code (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1993).
Acknowledgements
The Project Directors wish to thank the following for their help in organizing and carrying out
the activities of the Institute:
Barbara Ashbrook, Higher Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
David A. Berry, Executive Director, Community College Humanities Association
Mollie Witow, Project Assistant
Terry Walter, project secretary, Humanities & Arts, Essex Community College
Joeann Logan, project secretary, Community College Humanities Association
Pat Hodges, manager, Copy Cat Too, Inc., printing & duplicating services
Librarians and staff of the James A. Newpher Library of Essex Community College
Renée Hamilton, Far Horizons/ Archaeological & Cultural Trips, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM)
Marcie Mersky, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica CIRMA
(Antigua, Guatemala)
Marco Antonio Tello, local arrangements, Guatemala
Caitlin Thomas, Special Events Coordinator, Na Bolom (San Cristóbal,
Chiapas, Mexico)
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