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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico
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Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexicoby Ronald Wright
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Great, October 1, 2001 Reviewer:Stephen McHenry (Olney, MD USA) - A travel book, with culture and policitcs woven in, but not too heavily. Geography, environment, and a collection of characters encountered along the way, a fascinating book on several levels. Also in the fabric of the book is a discussion of how the Mayans keep time, what happened to them as a culture and people, as well as what their future might be. But is it all done with excellent writing, none of it too academic or dry, all interesting, with great writing artistry. A very good book. Simple and powerful. A good read if you have any interest in this area of the world or the Mayans.
From Publishers Weekly
This impressionistic travel diary portrays the uneducated but spirited modern descendants of the ancient Mayas, Incas and Aztecs, a potentially volatile peasant group suppressed by the European-descended Ladino majority in Latin America. "Wright fuses adventure, politics, archeology and history in a riveting read," said PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Wright takes us along to ancient and modern sites inhabited by Mayan Indians in Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico and concludes that the Maya are not facing extinction from the onslaught of "civilization" into their areas, but, on the contrary are surviving as they always have, by grafting new ways onto an ancient base. Spanish conquistadors found cities in America which far surpassed anything in Europe--with tall buildings and an accurate calendar. While the book offers a fine overview of Mayan civilization, it is not for the faint-hearted: It is quite scholarly. Readers interested in the calendar and the Mayan time reference will find this book valuable. For large and special collections.
- Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville
Copyright 1989 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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