Download or read book Maya Ruins Revisited written by William Frej and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired in large part by his discovery of the work of German-Austrian explorer Teobert Maler, who photographed them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of Frej's magnificent photographs are juxtaposed here with historic photographs taken by Maler, and reveal the changes in the landscape that have occurred in the intervening century. This unique pairing of archival material with current imagery of the same locations will be a significant addition to the literature on this ancient civilization that continues to captivate scholars and general readers alike. The book provides extended captions for all of the photographs, including their historical context in relation to Maler's images, which are archived at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Brigham Young University, the University of New Mexico, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The author's introduction covers the challenges of finding and photographing remote Maya sites. Alma Durán-Merk and Stephan Merk contribute a biographical sketch of Teobert Maler, while Khristaan Villela addresses the historic role of photography as a tool for documenting and presenting the history of significant Maya sites. Jeremy Sabloff provides essential background on the Maya and their built environment, and a chronology of the principal periods of Maya culture. The book includes a listing of all the sites featured and their locations as well as two maps. Maya Ruins Revisited offers an engaging and stimulating visual journey to many remote and seldom-seen Maya sites, and also will serve as valuable documentation of places that are rapidly being overcome by forces of nature and man.

Download or read book Maya Ruins Revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portoflio of original photographs by William Frej, with images taken in Guatemala and Mexico from 2015 to 2018

Download or read book Stephens Catherwood Revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Columbian Studies announces a unique exhibition in the Orientation and Rare Book galleries that features British artist Frederick Catherwood’s illustrations of Maya ruins matched with composite photographs by Jay A. Frogel of those same sites. The vivid accounts recorded by American diplomat John L. Stephens and Catherwood of their journeys to long-forgotten Maya sites rank among the most celebrated of all nineteenth-century travel narratives. They were the first explorers to accurately describe and illustrate many notable ruins, and their books introduced Maya civilization to a much wider audience.

Download or read book The Ruins Revisited and the World story Retold written by S. F. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins written by C. Bruce Hunter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated descriptions, explanations, and appraisals of accessible Mayan ceremonial centers in Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras, setting each of the twenty-four sites in its historical, cultural, and architectural context

Download or read book On the Age of Maya Ruins written by Charles Pickering Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Among the Maya Ruins written by Ann Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the adventures of a lawyer and an artist sent to Central America on a secret mission by President Van Buren in 1839. Their discovery and exploration of Mayan ruins soon made secondary the original official purpose of the trip.

Download or read book Maya Ruins in Central America in Color written by William M. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the many Maya sites in Central America, none can compare with the tropical beauty and architecture grandeur of Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá. This book focuses on these three sites because, during the halcyon days of the Classic Maya, A.D. 250 to 900, they were the great centers of religious ceremony, of political and commercial activity, and of residence and power of the kings and nobles."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book Maya Ruins of Mexico in Color written by William M. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seasons of Ceremonies Rites and Rituals in Guatemala and Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a captivating visual record of the rich, still-alive traditions in Mexico and Guatemala conveyed through striking duotone photographs of community events in the region that take place within an annual cycle that refers to its pre-Columbian past, agricultural seasons, and Catholic traditions. The seasons of life are represented by colorful celebrations and rituals commemorating Mesoamerican history, culture, and religion. Beginning with the early December celebrations of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico's Yucatán, Bill Frej photographed thirteen celebrations including feast days of patron saints in Chiapas, Mexico, and Rabinal, Guatemala; the Carnival celebrations before Lent; Holy Week before Easter; and finally, the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico. Three of the celebrations are distinct and unlike the others--the Masked Dance of Abraham and Isaac in Yucatán, Mexico; the Puáaxku jitsé in Santa Teresa, Nayarit, Mexico; and the Achí masked drama in Rabinal in Guatemala's highlands. The photographs capture the traditional clothing, dances, and elaborate processions and behind-the-scenes preparations--women cook and decorate churches, children gather flowers and pine boughs, men and boys paint their faces and bodies, and everyone prepares for the days ahead. An introduction by Anne Frej and essays by Frine Castillo Badillo, Nicolasa Chávez, Philip E. Coyle, and Gary H. Gossen provide details on the celebrations and further illuminate the subjects, providing historical and cultural context on these enduring folk celebrations.

Download or read book Maya Ruins of Mexico in Color written by William M. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chronological Sequence in the Maya Ruins of Central America written by George Byron Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Among Maya Ruins written by Lonnie Pelletier and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two ruins are described by an adventurous couple sharing their hands-on experience (in 2017) - with just enough details to enable the enjoyment of these architectural wonders. Over five-thousand kilometres were covered in the process of viewing these ruined cities, from the north at Progreso, to the west at Campeche, east to Chetumal and Playa del Carmen, and south at the border of Guatemala and Belize. Anecdotes and history make a wonderful combination in this professionally written account of modern day risk taking. Architectural majesty accounts for the vitality and the focus in this guide to the beauty of Maya archaeology!

Download or read book The Mystery of the Maya written by Peter Lourie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of a journey to the Maya ruins of Palenque, Mexico.

Download or read book Pursuit of the Ancient Maya written by Robert Levere Brunhouse and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Age of Maya Ruins written by Charles P. Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--