Encounters with the Americas

By Rosemary A. Joyce

Subjects: Mayas, Antiquities, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Mayas, antiquities, America, discovery and exploration, Discovery and exploration, Indians of South America, Indians of Central America, Indians of central america, antiquities, Exhibitions, Indians of south america, antiquities

Description: "Richly illustrated catalog accompanied the renovated exhibition at Harvard's Peabody Museum. Like the exhibition, the catalog is divided into three parts: the age of encounter between indigenous and Spanish peoples; the classic Maya; and cultural survival in the contemporary world among the highland Maya of Guatemala, the Kuna people of Panama, and Amazonian societies. The authors present their own synthetic treatments of these subjects, supported by well-selected testimony from the actors themselves, such as Hernando Cortés, Sahagún's informants as presented by The Broken Spears, and recorded testimony from contemporary indigenous peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.