Books by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Only inexpensive edition, in full color, of a pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Eighty eight color plates show kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices. New introduction by Arthur G. Miller.

"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 CortGes, SahagGun's informants as presented by The Broken Spears, and recorded testimony from contemporary indigenous peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas