APPENDIX A

“The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity
and Change”

OUTLINE OF DAILY SCHEDULE and ASSIGNED READINGS

"The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and
Change."
On Site, June 23 - Aug 3, 2002
DAILY SCHEDULE
Note: Seminar topics and key reading assignments are listed for each day; most assignments
will be supplied in Institute Readers [items marked R], except for key texts [items marked T],

which it will be the responsibility of participants to obtain prior to the Institute. "Morning
seminars meet 9:00-Noon, unless otherwise announced; transportation and fieldtrip times will
be announced.

Guatemala (June 23- July 11)

June:
Sun June 23: Arrival of Institute participants in Guatemala City ;
participants will be met at airport by M. A. Travel and transferred to
Antigua. Informal gatherings. Check in at hotel Las Farolas.

M 24Seminar: George Lovell (Geography, Queen's University,

Canada): "Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala."
Afternoon: orientation to colonial Antigua.
Reading: W. George Lovell, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala (1992). [T]
Eve.: reception dinner; remarks by Institute directors George

Scheper and Laraine Fletcher and project manager David A.
Berry.

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Seminar: George Lovell: "Life and Death in Modern Guatemala."

Afternoon: site visits to colonial monuments of Antigua.
Reading: W. George Lovell, "The Highland Maya," in The Cambridge History of the
Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. II. Mesoamerica, Part 2, ed.
Richard E.W. Adams & Murdo J. Macleod (2000): 392-444.
W. George Lovell, "'A Dark Obverse': Maya Survival in Guatemala, 1520-
1994." Geographical Review 86 (1996): 401-7 [R]