Mark Lentz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 682881 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Lentz |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Lentz |
| FIRMA | LENTZ M |
| AFILIACIONES | Utah Valley University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Friar and the Maya
In 2002, Matthew Restall and John F. Chuchiak IV published an article in the journal Ethnohistory reconsidering the authorship of the manuscript commonly referred to as the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. In the bibliography, Restall and Chuchiak cited an unpublished manuscript in progress, “The Friar and the Maya: Fray Diego de Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.” Twenty-one years later, Restall and Chuchiak, joined by two key coauthors,…
Where Have All the Archives Gone? Yucatán’s Missing and Mobile Municipal Archives
During the heady years of the late 1970 s through the early 1990 s, scholars undertaking Indigenous-language research in English-language academia sparked enthusiasm and optimism regarding the impending discovery of many Native language sources. Pioneering works in this vein focused on Central Mexico with its abundant colonial-era (1520s–1820s) Nahuatl texts, with an emphasis on wills, election records, and judicial proceedings. Many hoped to fin…
Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses
Journal Article Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. Get access Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Pp. 252. Cloth $55.00. Mark W Lentz Mark W Lentz Utah Valley University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
Death in Old Mexico
One of the best recent additions to a growing number of microhistories of crime in colonial Latin America, Nicole von Germeten's Death in Old Mexico stands out for its page-turning narrative flow, the extensive research behind it, and the evocative sense of Mexico City that readers will discover within its pages. It tells the story of one of the most shocking crimes in eighteenth-century Mexico, the brutal 1789 killings of don Joaquín Dongo and t…
Maya Ruins Revisited
Maya Ruins Revisited: In the Footsteps of Teobert Maler highlights the visual record of an often-overlooked pioneer of Maya studies, the German photographer and Mayanist Teobert Maler. Maler's contributions, overshadowed by earlier Western explorers of Maya sites such as John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, Alfred Maudslay, and Désiré Charnay, receive their due in Maya Ruins Revisited. Undertaken with a photographer's eye for detail, Wil…
Mediating at the Margins
Objective/Context: This article emphasizes the distinct duties of interpreters general, primarily working in legal matters, and mediators at the margins of colonial control. The widespread flight of Mayas seeking relief shifted the linguistic map of the interior, requiring speakers of multiple languages rather than the service of interpreters general who resided in Yucatan. Methodology: Research in the Archivo General de Indias and published prim…
The Only True People
Book Review| August 01 2018 “The Only True People”: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present “The Only True People”: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present. Edited by Beyyette, Bethany J. and LeCount, Lisa J.. Foreword by Hill, Jonathan D.. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2017. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xviii, 288 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Mark Lentz Mark Lentz Utah Valley University Search…
Castas, Creoles, and the Rise of a Maya Lingua Franca in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan
Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters were readily available, with an upsurge in literacy in Maya among criollo clergymen, merchants, militia officers, and provincial administrators. They in turn observed that …
Libana
Indigenous Intellectuals
This welcome anthology brings together leading scholars of the Andes and Mexico in examining an under-served historical population, colonial indigenous intellectuals. Leading scholars in the ethno
Black Belizeans and Fugitive Mayas
In 1796, the commander of die Guatemalan presidio of Peten, Jose de Galvez, together with its leading prelate and the caciques of the nearby pueblos of San Andres and San Jose, registered a formal complaint: an increasing number of runaway black slaves from Belize taking refuge there had been marrying Maya women in their villages. The officials objected to these unions, stating that they did not want “their blood mixed with these newly Christian …
Negotiation within Domination
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and Susan Kellogg, leading scholars on colonial Indians’ engagement with Castilian law, bring together some of the most current research on native-Spanish interactions. Negotiation within Domination provides a nuanced perspective on colonial rule, demonstrating that New Spain’s indigenous inhabitants adjusted to Spanish rule and asserted privileges and autonomy within a foreign legal framework with notable aptitude. The chapt…
Los intérpretes generales de Yucatán
Este artículo se centra en un tipo importante de intermediarios en el Yucatán colonial, los intérpretes generales del Juzgado Privado de Indios de Yucatán. Desde la época de Gaspar Antonio Chi en 1580 hasta la desaparición de esta corte en la década de 1820, estos hombres mediaron directamente en disputas de propiedades, quejas contra las autoridades, y tradujeron decretos inicialmente publicados en español para la mayoría maya hablante de la pro…
Black and Indigenous
Book Review| January 01 2011 Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras By Mark Anderson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. viii + 290 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.) Mark W. Lentz Mark W. Lentz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 186–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-089 Ci…
In the Name of El Pueblo
Book Review| October 01 2011 In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán. By Eiss, Paul K.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xv + 337 pp., introduction, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Mark Lentz Mark Lentz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 …
Guía del investigador americanista
Introducción Plaza Grande con la Catedral de San Ildefonso de Mérida (una de las primeras de América continental) en segundo plano. Foto hecha por Sonephet Manivong. La “ciudad blanca” de Yucatán posee una larga y fascinante historia, y una gran parte de los documentos en los que está contenida esta herencia se encuentran ubicados en varios archivos y bibliotecas de la ciudad. A pesar de haber “sufrido despojos, abandono, abusos y arbitrariedades…
Black Belizeans and Fugitive Mayas
In 1796, the commander of die Guatemalan presidio of Peten, Jose de Galvez, together with its leading prelate and the caciques of the nearby pueblos of San Andres and San Jose, registered a formal complaint: an increasing number of runaway black slaves from Belize taking refuge there had been marrying Maya women in their villages. The officials objected to these unions, stating that they did not want “their blood mixed with these newly Christian …
Castas, Creoles, and the Rise of a Maya Lingua Franca in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan
Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters were readily available, with an upsurge in literacy in Maya among criollo clergymen, merchants, militia officers, and provincial administrators. They in turn observed that …
Mediating at the Margins
Objective/Context: This article emphasizes the distinct duties of interpreters general, primarily working in legal matters, and mediators at the margins of colonial control. The widespread flight of Mayas seeking relief shifted the linguistic map of the interior, requiring speakers of multiple languages rather than the service of interpreters general who resided in Yucatan. Methodology: Research in the Archivo General de Indias and published prim…
Guía del investigador americanista
Introducción Plaza Grande con la Catedral de San Ildefonso de Mérida (una de las primeras de América continental) en segundo plano. Foto hecha por Sonephet Manivong. La “ciudad blanca” de Yucatán posee una larga y fascinante historia, y una gran parte de los documentos en los que está contenida esta herencia se encuentran ubicados en varios archivos y bibliotecas de la ciudad. A pesar de haber “sufrido despojos, abandono, abusos y arbitrariedades…
Los intérpretes generales de Yucatán
Este artículo se centra en un tipo importante de intermediarios en el Yucatán colonial, los intérpretes generales del Juzgado Privado de Indios de Yucatán. Desde la época de Gaspar Antonio Chi en 1580 hasta la desaparición de esta corte en la década de 1820, estos hombres mediaron directamente en disputas de propiedades, quejas contra las autoridades, y tradujeron decretos inicialmente publicados en español para la mayoría maya hablante de la pro…
Black and Indigenous
Book Review| January 01 2011 Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras By Mark Anderson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. viii + 290 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.) Mark W. Lentz Mark W. Lentz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 186–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-089 Ci…
In the Name of El Pueblo
Book Review| October 01 2011 In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán. By Eiss, Paul K.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xv + 337 pp., introduction, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Mark Lentz Mark Lentz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 …
Negotiation within Domination
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and Susan Kellogg, leading scholars on colonial Indians’ engagement with Castilian law, bring together some of the most current research on native-Spanish interactions. Negotiation within Domination provides a nuanced perspective on colonial rule, demonstrating that New Spain’s indigenous inhabitants adjusted to Spanish rule and asserted privileges and autonomy within a foreign legal framework with notable aptitude. The chapt…
Black Belizeans and Fugitive Mayas
In 1796, the commander of die Guatemalan presidio of Peten, Jose de Galvez, together with its leading prelate and the caciques of the nearby pueblos of San Andres and San Jose, registered a formal complaint: an increasing number of runaway black slaves from Belize taking refuge there had been marrying Maya women in their villages. The officials objected to these unions, stating that they did not want “their blood mixed with these newly Christian …
Indigenous Intellectuals
This welcome anthology brings together leading scholars of the Andes and Mexico in examining an under-served historical population, colonial indigenous intellectuals. Leading scholars in the ethno
Castas, Creoles, and the Rise of a Maya Lingua Franca in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan
Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters were readily available, with an upsurge in literacy in Maya among criollo clergymen, merchants, militia officers, and provincial administrators. They in turn observed that …
Libana
The Only True People
Book Review| August 01 2018 “The Only True People”: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present “The Only True People”: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present. Edited by Beyyette, Bethany J. and LeCount, Lisa J.. Foreword by Hill, Jonathan D.. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2017. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xviii, 288 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Mark Lentz Mark Lentz Utah Valley University Search…
Mediating at the Margins
Objective/Context: This article emphasizes the distinct duties of interpreters general, primarily working in legal matters, and mediators at the margins of colonial control. The widespread flight of Mayas seeking relief shifted the linguistic map of the interior, requiring speakers of multiple languages rather than the service of interpreters general who resided in Yucatan. Methodology: Research in the Archivo General de Indias and published prim…
Maya Ruins Revisited
Maya Ruins Revisited: In the Footsteps of Teobert Maler highlights the visual record of an often-overlooked pioneer of Maya studies, the German photographer and Mayanist Teobert Maler. Maler's contributions, overshadowed by earlier Western explorers of Maya sites such as John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, Alfred Maudslay, and Désiré Charnay, receive their due in Maya Ruins Revisited. Undertaken with a photographer's eye for detail, Wil…
Where Have All the Archives Gone? Yucatán’s Missing and Mobile Municipal Archives
During the heady years of the late 1970 s through the early 1990 s, scholars undertaking Indigenous-language research in English-language academia sparked enthusiasm and optimism regarding the impending discovery of many Native language sources. Pioneering works in this vein focused on Central Mexico with its abundant colonial-era (1520s–1820s) Nahuatl texts, with an emphasis on wills, election records, and judicial proceedings. Many hoped to fin…
Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses
Journal Article Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. Get access Mark Z. Christensen. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Pp. 252. Cloth $55.00. Mark W Lentz Mark W Lentz Utah Valley University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
Death in Old Mexico
One of the best recent additions to a growing number of microhistories of crime in colonial Latin America, Nicole von Germeten's Death in Old Mexico stands out for its page-turning narrative flow, the extensive research behind it, and the evocative sense of Mexico City that readers will discover within its pages. It tells the story of one of the most shocking crimes in eighteenth-century Mexico, the brutal 1789 killings of don Joaquín Dongo and t…
The Friar and the Maya
In 2002, Matthew Restall and John F. Chuchiak IV published an article in the journal Ethnohistory reconsidering the authorship of the manuscript commonly referred to as the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. In the bibliography, Restall and Chuchiak cited an unpublished manuscript in progress, “The Friar and the Maya: Fray Diego de Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.” Twenty-one years later, Restall and Chuchiak, joined by two key coauthors,…
History (14 obras) · Archaeology (10 obras) · Latin American history and culture (10 obras) · Maya (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Indigenous (6 obras) · Ethnology (5 obras) · Historical Studies in Latin America (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras)