Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2954513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Predmore |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-106 |
| Publication date | 1950-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan /, John Lloyd Stephens, 1841 |
| Review of | Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, John Lloyd Stephens, 2010 |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-30.1.106 |
| OpenAlex | W2140276579 |
| Language | EN |
John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was an American politician, explorer and writer who is renowned for his pioneering research into the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. In 1839 Stephens was appointed a Special Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Central America (modern Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador). First published in 1841, this two-volume work is an account of his travels in 1839 and 1840, visiting and recording ancient Mayan sites. Stephens describes Copan, Palenque and forty-two other ancient sites and includes over fifty illustrations drawn by his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854), a professional architect. Although earlier accounts of Mayan ruins had been published, Stephens' vivid descriptions and Catherwood's meticulous drawings were far more detailed and accurate than previous reports, and kindled Victorian interest in the ancient Maya civilisation. Volume 2 focuses on Palenque, Uxmal and other Mayan sites
Geography · Political science · Yucatan peninsula · Archaeology and Natural History · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Ecology · Latin American history and culture
Collecting Native America
Archaeological Legacies of Knowledge
Cacao in Eastern Guatemala––a sacred tree with ecological significance
Were the Miskito indians black? Ethnicity, politics and plagiarism in the mid-nineteenth century
The Inertia of Old Ideas
There Was a Time of Dancing'-Visual Memory of the Maya Uprising in Guatemala, 1980-1981
The Orientation of Mayan Ceremonial Centers
Archaeology and nationalism in Guatemala at the time of independence
Peace Through Disunion
Putting Us on the Map
Embattled Excavations. Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past
Exhibiting Degeneracy
Unimagining the Maya
El espacio Atlántico/Caribe guatemalteco
The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art
A Comment on Rowe's 'Duffusionism and Archaeology
The Interamerican Diffusion of a Cooking Technique
Critical Histories of Archaeological Practice
The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico
Orientalized Aztecs
Antigüedades portátiles
Reform and (Counter)Revolution in Post- Independence Guatemala
Personalities and Institutions in Americanist Archaeology, 1850–1950
Approaching Ruins a Photo‐Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá
Can the Subaltern Be Seen? Photography and the Affects of Nationalism
Idols and Idolatry in Highland Guatemala
Sharks in the jungle
Social Organization and Disorganization in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
Pillage in the Archives
Planos de plaza y patrones de asentamiento
Extensive land use and the logic of the latifundio
The Study of Classic Maya Architecture
Conquistadors, Monsters, and Maps
North of Eden
Chronological Research at Copan
On the Trail of Quetzalcoatl/Kukulcan
The Central Role of Cave Archaeology in the Reconstruction of Classic Maya Culture History and Highland-Lowland Interaction
Prehistoric Political Change on the Southeast Mesoamerican Periphery
Continuity and Change in a Royal Maya Residential Complex at Copan
Deciphering the Symbols and Symbolic Meaning of the Maya World Tree
Rituales mayas asociados al paso del hotún en Quiriguá
Sayil Revisited
The Significance of Blackness
Sowing the stone
Peopling the landscape
Paradise glossed
Introduction
The Reliability of the Ruins1
Recent Research in the Southern Highlands and Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica
Classic Maya canoes
Pilgrim Networks of the Holy Shrine of Esquipulas, Guatemala
What can GIS + 3D mean for landscape archaeology
Networks and Netwars
Opening the Cabaret America Allegory
Material Expressions of Social Inequality on a Porfirian Sugar Hacienda in Yucatán, Mexico
The End of Archaeological Discovery
Peonage, Power Relations, and the Built Environment at Hacienda Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico
Agencies of the Letter
Nineteenth-Century Drawings of Maya Monuments in the Society's Library
The Construction of the Interoceanic Railroad of Guatemala
A Chosen People”
Manioc Cultivation at Ceren, El Salvador
Framing the past
Expeditionary Art
Message in the Plaza
Isotopic proveniencing at Classic Copan and in the southern periphery of the Maya Area
Ancient American Metal-Smiths
Myth and History Reconsidered
Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice
Incidents of Theatre in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan
The center and the edge
Photography and Latin American Ruins
Cestovatelství a kulturní kontakt
Hieroglyphs and Archaeology at Copan
Ritual Continuity and Transformation in Mesoamerica
Ancient Manioc Agriculture South of the Ceren Village, El Salvador
The Weight of Water
Late Postclassic lowland Maya archaeology
Mending the past
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |