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Yucatan Before And After The Conquest
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Author : Diego de Landa
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-23
Yucatan Before And After The Conquest written by Diego de Landa and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with History categories.
Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. 4 maps, and over 120 illustrations.
Yucatan Before And After The Conquest
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Author : Diego de Landa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Yucatan Before And After The Conquest written by Diego de Landa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Mayas categories.
Yucat N Before And After The Conquest
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Author : Diego de Landa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Yucat N Before And After The Conquest written by Diego de Landa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Mayas categories.
Yucatan Before And After The Conquest
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Author : Friar Diego Landa
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-06-25
Yucatan Before And After The Conquest written by Friar Diego Landa and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-25 with categories.
In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fé' in Maní where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived future generations of a huge body of Mayan literature. He culturally impoverished the descendents of the Mayas, and left only four codices for scholars to puzzle over. The document translated here is de Landa's apology, and one of the few remaining contemporary texts which describe pre-conquest Mayan society, science, and art in detail. As such it must be read in context. The translator and editor, the distinguished Americanist William Gates, provides plenty of background on de Landa, the decline of the Maya, and what is today known about their ancient culture. Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán also created a valuable record of the Mayan writing system, which despite its inaccuracies was later to prove instrumental in the later decipherment of the writing system. Landa asked his informants (his primary sources were two Maya individuals descended from a ruling Maya dynasty, literate in the script) to write down the glyphic symbols corresponding to each of the letters of the (Spanish) alphabet, in the belief that there ought to be a one-to-one correspondence between them. The results were faithfully reproduced by Landa in his later account, although he recognised that the set contained apparent inconsistencies and duplicates, which he was unable to explain. Later researchers reviewing this material also formed the view that the "de Landa alphabet" was inaccurate or fanciful, and many subsequent attempts to use this transcription remained unconvincing. It was not until much later, in the mid-twentieth century, when it was realised and then confirmed that it was not a transcription of an alphabet, as Landa and others had originally supposed, but was rather a syllabary. Confirmation of this was only to be established by the work of Russian linguist Yuri Knorozov in the 1950s, and the succeeding generation of Mayanists. Relación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa Calderón circa 1566 shortly after his return to Spain after serving as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán in the sixteenth century. In it, de Landa catalogues a partial explanation of written and spoken language that proved vital to modern attempts to decipher the language[1] as well as Maya religion and the Mayan peoples' culture in general. It was written with the help of local Maya princes, and contains the famous translation of "I do not want to". The original manuscript has been lost, although many copies still survive. Currently available English translations include William E. Gates's 1937 translation, has been published by multiple publishing houses under the title Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
Yucat N Before And After The Conquest
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Author : Diego de Landa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Yucat N Before And After The Conquest written by Diego de Landa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Mayas categories.
Relaci N De Las Cosas De Yucat N
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Author : Diego De Landa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05
Relaci N De Las Cosas De Yucat N written by Diego De Landa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with History categories.
In an ambitious new translation of Diego de Landa's Account of the Things of Yucatan (Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan), the editor revises and updates the language for the contemporary reader of English. In the process he captures the narrative power and intensity, the nuances and subtleties of meaning and the emotions of Landa's history of Yucatan at the time of Spanish arrival, conquest, and settlement of the peninsula. Landa's observations speak of his intellectual curiosity about and of his respect for the First Peoples of Yucatan. For instance, he credits the vast architectural legacy, from the pyramids to the monumental ceremonial centers, to the Mayas' ancestors, and not other "nations." At the same time, Landa surmises that the Maya of centuries past were healthier, better fed, and enjoyed a more diverse diet compared to the Maya of his time. This has only recently been confirmed through the analysis of human remains dating back to the Classic Maya period. These intellectual insights, however, stand in sharp contrast with Landa's conviction that the devil visited Yucatan, which led him to establish an Inquisition, for which he was denounced and made to defend himself before the Council of the Indies in Spain. This episode remains arguably the darkest one in Yucatan's post-Hispanic history. These beliefs about the presence of the devil, however, as the Salem witch trials a century later demonstrate, were common throughout the world at the time. Now, for the first time, both a new English-language translation and Landa's original Spanish-language manuscript are published in the same volume, offering readers the opportunity to read the text in both English and Spanish. This is the timeless historical work that constitutes the foundation of our understanding of the ambivalence that characterizes the co-existence of the Maya and Spaniards in Yucatan, an ambivalence that in many ways continues to the present day.
The Conquest Of Yucatan
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Author : Frans Ferdinand Blom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Conquest Of Yucatan written by Frans Ferdinand Blom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.
Landa S Relacion De Las Cosas De Yucatan
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Author : Diego de Landa
language : en
Publisher: Ams PressInc
Release Date : 1941
Landa S Relacion De Las Cosas De Yucatan written by Diego de Landa and has been published by Ams PressInc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Mayas categories.
The Yucatan From Prehistoric Times To The Great Maya Revolt
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Author : Douglas T. Peck
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005-07-29
The Yucatan From Prehistoric Times To The Great Maya Revolt written by Douglas T. Peck and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-29 with History categories.
This book introduces an innovative and verified pattern of Maya history that follows the origin of the Olmec culture in Tabasco through its melding into and becoming the Chontal Maya/Itza of the Yucatan. The Yucatan has been the focal point and geographical crossroad of profound cultural, ethnological, and sociological change and development in Mesoamerica from ancient times to the present. This far-reaching and historically significant acculturation was brought about by two widely separated epic migrations and military conquests by foreign peoples bringing radically new, innovative, and advanced culture to the area. The first of these was the migration and military conquest by the Olmec/Chontal Maya/Itza from Tabasco bringing their written language, mathematics, architectural expertise, and religion into northern and central Yucatan. This golden age of Maya civilization, centered in the Yucatan, lasted for a millennium during which the advanced Maya culture flowered and spread south into Honduras and Guatemala and west into the highlands of Mexico. In like manner, the second migration and military conquest of the Yucatan by Spanish conquistadors also brought new and advanced cultural norms to the area. The history of the origin, development, and impact of these two momentous events constitutes the thrust of this book and is contrary to and challenges much of the currently accepted historiography related to the subject. Contrary to current consensus the book shows that the seafaring and mercantile oriented Chontal Maya/Itza from Yucatan were a populous worldly element of the Maya civilization who traveled and spread their cultural influence not only throughout continental Mesoamerica, but ventured across the seas to the islands of the Caribbean and to the shores of Southwest Florida in the territory of the Calusa Indians. Consistent with this accomplishment, they had developed naval engineering, Metallurgy, tool design, woodworking, and ship building capabilities that enabled them to construct the large composite seaworthy vessels (not just log canoes) required. And from their expertise in mathematics and astronomy they developed a sophisticated method of celestial navigation for their overseas voyages a millennium before celestial navigation was developed in Europe.
The Conquest Of Yucatan
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Author : Frans Blom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-08-01
The Conquest Of Yucatan written by Frans Blom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-08-01 with categories.