Archaeological
Guides:
Joyce Kelly, An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America/ Belize,
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1996.
Joyce Kelly, An Archaeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1993.
C. Bruce Hunter, A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins. 2nd ed. Norman: U of
Oklahoma P, 1986.
Country
Guides and Guidebooks with Conscience:
Tom Barry, Guatemala/ A Country Guide. Albuquerque: The Inter-Hemispheric
Education Resource Center, 1989.
Tom Barry, Inside Guatemala. Albuquerque: The Inter-Hemispheric Education
Resource Center, 1992. A much expanded version of the previous title.
[Note: can be ordered by calling 505-842-8288]
Tom Barry, ed. Mexico/ A Country Guide. Albuquerque: The Inter-Hemispheric
Education Resource Center, 1992. [Can be ordered ditto]
W. George Lovell, A Beauty That Hurts/ Life and Death in Guatemala. Toronto:
Between the Lines, 1995.
Stephen Connely Benz, Guatemalan Journey. Austin: U of Texas P, 1996.
Tom Brosnahan, La Ruta Maya/ Yucatán, Guatemala & Belize.
Berkeley: Lonely Planet Pub., 1991.
Route of the Mayas. [orig. Gallimard Editions] NY: Knopf, 1995.
History and
Anthropology:
Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit/ The Untold Story of
the American Coup in Guatemala. NY: Doubleday, 1982.
Christopher H. Lutz, Santiago de Guatemala 1541-1773/ City, Caste, and the
Colonial Experience. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1994.
Oakah L. Jones, Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period. Norman: U of
Oklahoma P, 1995.
W. George Lovell, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical
Geography of of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821. Rev. ed. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's U P, 1992.
Evon Z. Vogt, Zinacantan/ A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas.
Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1969.
Evon Z. Vogt, Tortillas for the Gods/ A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco
Rituals. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, [1976] 1992.
Victoria Bricker, The Indian Christ, the Indian King: the Historical Substrate
of Maya Myth and Ritual. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.
Victoria Bricker, Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas. Austin:U of Texas
P, 1973.
Sarah C. Blaffer, The Black-man of Zinacantan/ A Central American Legend.
Austin: U of Texas P, 1972.
Literature/
Testimonia:
Marilyn Anderson and Jonathan Garlock, Granddaughters of Corn/ Portraits
of Guatemalan Women. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone P, 1988.
The Granddaughters of Ixmucané/ Guatemalan Women Speak. As told to
& tr. by Emilie Smith-Ayala. Toronto: Women's Press, 1991.
Guatemala, the Compañeras Speak/ Testimonies of Six Women. Berkeley:
Guatemala News and Information Bureau, 1982.
Mary Elmendorf, Nine Mayan Women/ A Village Faces Change. NY: Schenkman
Pub. Co./ John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
Rosario Castellanos. The Nine Guardians. Tr. Irene Nicholson. Columbia,
LA: Readers International, 1992 [orig. Balún-Canán, 1957].
Rosario Castellanos. City of Kings. Tr. Robert Rudder & Gloria Chacón
de Arjona. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1993 [orig. Ciudad
Real, 1960]. Can be ordered via phone: (412) 351-1477; or fax: (412) 351-6831.
Film/
Video/ Slides:
Don Johnson, "The Maya on Film/ A Working filmography for College Instructors"
[avail. from don Johnson, South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman
Road, S.W., Olympia, WA 98512].
Allen Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz, eds., Teaching and Testimony/
Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom (Albany: SUNY Press,
1996), Appendix 2: "Film/Video Resources" and Appendix 3: "Guatemalan
Resources/ Activism."
Popol Vuh: the Creation Myth of the Maya. Animated film by Patricia Amlin.
Extension Media Center, U of California, Berkeley, 1989. [415/ 624-0460].
The Living Maya, a four-part video series by Hubert Smith filmed in a Yucatecan
village. [Distributed: ditto].
Todos Santos Cuchumatan/ Report from a Guatemalan Village. A film by Olivia
Carrescia. 1982. [Distributed by First Run/ Icarus Films. (800) 876-1710.]
Todos Santos: the Survivors. A film by Olivia Carrescia. 1989. [Icarus]
Mayan Voices/ American Lives. A film by Olivia Carrescia. 1994. [Icarus]
Winds of Memory. A video by Felix Zurita. 1992. [Icarus]
Guatemala Programs [series of 3 videotapes, emphasising contemporary culture
and recent politics, plus a separate tape on "The Death
Squads of Guatemala"). Available for free, upon sending blank video tapes.
Contact: Geoffrey Grimes, English, Mountain View College/ Dallas County Community
Colleges, 4849 W. Illinois, Dallas, TX 75211 [214-860-8624].
Color Slide Photographic Archive, Foundation for Latin American Anthropological
Research. Contact: Nicholas Hellmuth, Director, FLAAR, Brevard Community College,
Clearlake Road, Cocoa, FL 32922 [407-632-1111, ext. 64160; fax: 407-633-4565;
email: hellmuth.n@a1.brevard.cc.fl.us].
Color Slide Sets, Maya Series: Pictures of Record, 119 Kettle Creek Road, Weston,
CT 06883 [203-227-3387; fax: 203-222-9673].
Also, please note that the Ixchel Museum, which we will be visiting in Guatemala
City, has a wonderful bookstore, with many titles on Maya textiles, and videos
on Mayan Clothing and on Mayan Confradía Fiesta.
Supplementary Bibliographies Recommended
by the Institute Scholars:
Carol
Hendrickson | Mary Louise Pratt / Victor Montejo |
Merle Green Robertson |
Michael Coe | Peter Harrison | Jan
de Vos |Robert Laughlin| Jeff Kowalski
and Rafael Cobos |
Piedad Peneche Rivero/Francisco Fernandez | Misc
Carol Hendrickson:
Linda Green, "Fear as a Way of Life," Cultural Anthropology
9.2 (1994): 227-256.
Linda Asturias de Barrios, Comalapa: Native Dress and its Significance
(Guatemala City: Ixchel Museum Pub., 1985)
Margot Blum Schevill, Evolution in Textile Design from the Highlands of Guatemala.
Occasional Papers, No. 1 (Berkeley: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1985).
Margot Blum Schevill, Maya Textiles of Guatemala (Austin, Univ of Texas
P, 1993): chap. 1, "The Communicative Nature of Cloth and Clothing,"
pp. 3-17.
James Dunkerley, Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central
America (London: Verson, 1988): chap. 9: "Guatemala: Garrison State."
Robert Carmack, ed. Harvest of Violence: the Mayan Indians and the Guatemalan
Crisis (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991): chaps. 4, 8 & 9.
Carol Smith, Guatemala Indians and the State (Austin: University of Texas
P, 1992).
Michael Conroy, et al., A Cautionary Tale: Failed U.S. Development Policy
in Central America (A Food First Book: Lynne Rienner Pub., 1996). may be
ordered through Subterranean Co.: 1-800-274-7826).
Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town (Austin, Univ
of Texas P, 1987).
Rachel Garst and Tom Barry, Feeding the Crisis (Lincoln: U of Nebraska,
1990).
Ricardo Falla, Massacres in the Jungle, Ixcan Guatemala 1975-1982 (Boulder:
Westview, 1993).
Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest (Berkeley: U of California P, 1993)
Kay Warren, Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemala Town
(Austin, U of Texas, 1978).
Richard Wilson, Mayan Resurgence in Guatemala: Qeqchi Experiences (Norman:
U of Oklahoma P, 1995).
Marilyn Anderson, Guatemalan Textiles Today (NY: Watson-Guptil).
Mary
Louise Pratt/ Victor Montejo:
Mary Louise Pratt, "Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú: Autoethnography
and the Recoding of Citizenship," in Teaching and Testimony/ Rigoberta
Menchú and the North American Classroom, ed. Allen Carey-Webb and
Stephen Benz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996): 57-72.
Stephen Benz, "Culture Shock and I, Rigoberta Menchú," in Teaching
and Testimony/ Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom,
ed. Allen Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996): 19-26.
Susanne Jonas, The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and U.S. Power
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1991).
Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez, A Mayan Life (Yax Te' Press, 1995)
Fernando Peñalosa, Tales and Legend of the Q'Anjob'al Maya (Rancho
Palos Verdes, CA: Yax Te' Press, 1995). [Note: to order, use tel/fax: 310-377-8763].
Merle Greene
Robertson:
Mary Ellen Miller, The Murals of Bonampak (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986).
Carolyn Tate, Yaxchilán: the Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
(Austin: U of Texas P, 1992).
Peter Mathews, Maya Hieroglyph Weekend October 26-27, 1991 (Cleveland
State Univ, 1991)
David Stuart, "Royal Auto-Sacrifice Among the Maya/ A Study of Image and
Meaning." RES 7/8 (Spring/Autumn, 1984): 5-20.
Clemency Chase Coggins, "Classic Maya Metaphors of Death and Life."
RES 16 (Autumn 1988): 65-84.
Michael Coe:
Michael Coe and Justin Kerr, The Art of the Maya Scribe (NY: Abrams,
1997).
William Fash, Scribes, Warriors & Kings: The City of Copán and
the Ancient Maya (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1991).
Dorie Reents-Budet, Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic
Period (Durham: Duke UP, 1994).
Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Rutual
in Maya Art (NY: George Braziller, in association with the Kimball Art Museum,
Fort Worth, 1986).
Mary Ellen Miller, "Copan, Honduras: Conference with a Perished City,"
in City-States of the Maya: Art and Architecture, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson
(Denver: Rocky Mountain Institute for Pre-Columbian Studies, 1986): 72-108.
William L. Fash and David S. Stuart, "Dynastic History and Cultural Evolution
at Copan, Honduras," in Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic
and Archaeological Evidence, ed. T. Patrick Culbert (SAR, Cambridge U P,
1991): 147-179.
David Webster, ed. "The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras."
Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, 29. Washington,
D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1989.
Richard Williamson, "Excavations, Interpretations and Implications of the
Earliest Structures Beneath Structure 10L-26 at Copán, Honduras, in Eighth
Palenque Roundtable, ed. Merle Greene Robertson (San Francisco: The Pre-Columbian
Art Research Institute, 1996): 169-175.
Claude Baudez, Maya Sculpture of Copán: the Iconography (Norman:
U of Oklahoma P, 1994).
[caveat from Mike Coe: "I don't agree with much of what he says, but the
pictures are important"!]
Peter Harrison:
Peter Harrison and Flora Clancy, eds., Vision and Revision in Maya Studies
(Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990).
Peter Harrison, "So the Seeds Shall Grow: Some Introductory Comments,"
in Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture, ed. Peter D. Harrison and B. L. Turner
(Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978): 1- 11.
Gordon R. Willey, "Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture: A Contemporary Summation,"
in in Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture, ed. Peter Harrison and B. L. Turner
(Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978): 325-35.
R. A. Fasquelle & J. A. Valdes, Copán and Tikal: Secrets of Two
Maya Cities (San José, Costa Rica, 1994).
Genevieve Michel, The Rulers of Tikal/ A Historical Reconstruction and Field
Guide to the Stelae (Guatemala, C.A.: Publicaciones Vista, 1989)
Barbara Tedlock, Time and the Highland Maya (Albuquerque: U of NM, 1982):
chaps. 4, "The Calendar" (88-99), 5, "The Day Lords" (106-127)
& 8, "Conclusions" (172-178).
Jan de Vos:
Jan de Vos, La Paz de Dios Y Del Rey/ La conquista
de la selva lacandona 1525-1821 (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica,
1988).
Jan de Vos, Vivir en Frontera/ La Experiencia de los Indios de Chiapas
(México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social, 1994.
Victor Perera and Robert D. Bruce, The Last Lords of Palenque/ the Lacondon
Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest (Berkeley: U of California P, 1982).
Rolena Adorno, The Intellectual Life of Bartolomé de las Casas
(Tulane: Graduate School, 1992).
Henry Rupp Wagner, with Helen Rand Parish, The Life and Writings of Bartolomé
de las Casas (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1967).
Robert Laughlin:
Mayan Tales from Zinacatán/ Dreams and Stories
from the People of the Bat. Collected and translated by Robert M. Laughlin; edited by Carol
Karasik. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. [Note: reissue of
The People of the Bat, 1988]
Walter Morris, Jr. and Jeffrey Jay Foxx, Living Maya (NY: Abrams, 1987).
Christine Eber, Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town/ Water of Hope,
Water of Sorrow (Austin: U of Texas P, 1995).
Carter Wilson, Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico
(Berkeley: U of California P, 1974).
George Collier, with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, Basta!: Land and the Zapatista
Rebellion in Chiapas (Oakland: A Food First Book/ Institute for Food and
Development Policy, 1994).
Note: Can be ordered by calling Subterranean Company: 1-800-274-7826.
Katzenberger, Elaine, ed. First World, Ha Ha Ha!/ The Zapatista Challenge
(San Francisco: City Lights, 1995).
Jeff Kowalski and Rafael Cobos:
Linnea H. Wren, "The Great Ball Court Stone from Chichén Itzá."
Sixth Palenque Roundtable, 1986, Merle Greene Robertson, General Editor;
Virgina M. Fields, Volume Editor (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991): 51-58.
George Stuart and Gene Stuart, The Lost Kingdoms of the Maya (Washington,
D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1993).
Anthony Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Austin: U of Texas P, 1980):
from chap. V: "Astroarchaeology and the Place of Astronomy in Ancient American
Architecture," 240- 245, 277-280.
Anthony Aveni and Horst Hartung's, Maya City Planning and the Calendar
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 76.7 (Philadelphia, 1986).
Piedad Peneche
Rivero/ Francisco Fernandez:
Nancy Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule/ The Collective
Enterprise of Survival (Princeton: Princeton U P, 1984).
Grant Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule/ Time and History
on a Colonial Frontier (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1989).
Nelson Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan (Stanford: Stanford
U P, 1964).
Edward Davis Terry, "A Panorama of Literature in Yucatan,"
in Yucatan: A World Apart, ed. Edward Terry and Edward
Mosely (Tuscaloosa, U of Alabama P, 1980): 264-319.
Paul Sullivan, Unfinished Conversations/ Mayas and Foreigners
Between Two Wars (Berkeley: U of California P, 1989).
Other, misc.
Claude F. Baudez, "The Cross-Pattern at Copán: forms, Rituals, and
Meanings," Sixth Palenque Roundtable, 1986, Merle Greene Robertson,
General Editor; Virgina M. Fields, Volume Editor (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991),
81-88.
Christine Eber & Brenda Rosenbaum, "'That We May Serve Beneath Your
Hands and Feet': Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas, Mexico," in June Nash,
ed. Crafts in the World Market (SUNY: Albany, 1993): 154-179 [R]
Jan de Vos, San Cristóbal: ciudad colonial (México, D.F.:
INAH, 1986).
John McAndrew, The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth-Century México
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U P, 1965): 124-35, 174-89, 279-302.
Maud Oakes, The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious
Rituals (NY: Pantheon, 1951): chaps. 1.4 & 2.3 & 2.7.
George Kubler & Martin Soria, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal
and their American Dominions 1500-1800 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1959; 1969):
pp. 82-85, 169-171.
Richard D. Perry, More Maya Missions: Exploring Colonial Chiapas (Santa
Barbara: Espadaña Press, 1994): chap. 1, 24-61. [R]
Sidney Markman, Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas México
(Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1984): 3-8, 19-32, 63- 69, 84-92,
153-157, 159-193, 203-206, 271-272, 293-294 [R]
Sidney Markman, "The Church of Santo Domingo in San Cristobal de las Casas,
Chiapas," Boletin del CIHE/UCU, 23 (Caracas, Venezuela, 1978): 34-55
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