Encounters with the Americas

by Rosemary A. Joyce, Hillel S. Burger (Photographer), Susan A. M. Shumaker

Overview

Historic black-and-white photographs and striking color images of archaeological and ethnographic objects enhance this introduction to one of the world’s most significant Central and South American anthropological collection. Encounters with the Americas also places the museum in a living context through first-person accounts of sixteenth-century contact between Europeans and Aztec and Maya peoples and post-Columbian encounters of Native peoples with explorers and anthropologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873658157
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	06/08/1995
Series:	Peabody Museum Series
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rosemary A. Joyce is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hillel S. Burger is a professional photographer.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Peabody Museum and Latin America

PART 1: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE AMERICAS

First Encounter: The Voyages of Columbus

Second Encounter: The Maya Resist Spanish Expeditions

Third Encounter: The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec State

Aztec Society on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest