Romancing the Maya

Name: Romancing the Maya
Brand: University of Texas Press
SKU: 02331959

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2395685Romancing the Mayahttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/romancing-the-maya-9780292789265/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3027395/8843ef30-5cb0-4387-8787-677cc807abe8.jpg?v=638384780566800000439462MXNUniversity of Texas PressInStock/Ebooks/During Mexicos first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphsand having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquitiesamateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexicos pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States cultural heritage.In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexicos cultural heritage as the United States own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figuresAmerican writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology....2331959Romancing the Maya439462https://www.gandhi.com.mx/romancing-the-maya-9780292789265/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3027395/8843ef30-5cb0-4387-8787-677cc807abe8.jpg?v=638384780566800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20109780292789265_W3siaWQiOiI1Y2UyODIzZS1lZWU5LTQ4MDktYmJhNy1lODYwYjk1MGQxYjEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ2MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjIzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjQzOSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMTAtMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780292789265_During Mexicos first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphsand having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquitiesamateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexicos pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States cultural heritage. In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexicos cultural heritage as the United States own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figuresAmerican writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destinyinspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.(*_*)9780292789265_During Mexicos first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphsand having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquitiesamateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexicos pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States cultural heritage.In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexicos cultural heritage as the United States own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figuresAmerican writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology....9780292789265_University of Texas Presslibro_electonico_92de2023-9b59-35e1-afbb-215b38e4fce7_9780292789265;9780292789265_9780292789265R. TrippInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/utexaspress-epub-53b81da9-a353-4eee-b7f1-c3efb078daa5.epub2010-06-28T00:00:00+00:00University of Texas Press