The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest / Edition 1

by Victor Perera, Robert D. Bruce

Overview

The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Nahá in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. They are the sole inheritors of an oral tradition that preserves-more than 400 years after the Spanish Conquest-a cosmology, a morality and a psychology as sophisticated as our own. Journalist and novelist Victor Perera and linguist Robert Bruce have lived among the Lacandones, chronicling their imperiled Mayan culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520053090
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/09/1986
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	809,131
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.90(d)