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The Community College Humanities Association is sponsoring a six-week Institute for two-year and four-year full-time college faculty devoted to on-site study of pre-Columbian, colonial-era, and contemporary Maya culture. Institute seminars will be based at three regional study centers: CIRMA (Centro de Investigaciones de Mesoamerica) in Antigua, Guatemala; PARI (Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute), hosted by Executive Director Merle Greene Robertson in Palenque, Mexico; and Universidad Autonómo de Yucatán in Mérida. Field study will also be conducted at Copán, Honduras; Tikal, Guatemala; Bonampak in chiapas; and Uxmal and Chichen Itzá in Yucatán. Study will also focus on the culture, crafts, literature and theatre of contemporary Maya communities. Colonial era history and culture will be studied through primary literary sources, both the Spanish and Maya, as well as through the art and architecture of the colonial capitals of Antigua and Mérida. Fourteen scholars from the United States, Canada and Latin America will serve as visiting Institute faculty.
The Maya World: Cultural
Traditions in Continuity and Change Director: Faculty: James Brady, Raphael Cobos,
Michael Coe, Jan de Vos, Information: Maintained by the Institute
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