Author: GIRARD, RAFAEL
Title: Los Mayas Eternos
Description: Mexico City: Robredo, 1962.. First Edition. Con 250 Fotografias, 1 Cuadro, 5 Mapas y 94 Grabados en el Texto. xiv+493 pages with 250 photographs, 94 drawings in text, 5 maps, tables (one folding) and index. HARDCOVER: (Original publisher's brown cloth , pictorials to cover and spine pict. dustjacket. Light tracces of use. VERY GOOD)) ¶ The present volume can be divided into two parts. The first section deals with the ethnography of the present day Maya, concentrating on the religious ceremonies of the Chorti-speaking Mays of eastern Guatemala and western Honduras. The second section is considerably shorter. It discusses the past and present culture of the Mayas, the various calendarical systems, the Pre-Columbian migrations in Mexico and Guatemala and an historical reconstruction of Maya civilization.

Keywords: Latin America Central America Mayas History


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