Quiche Mayas of Utatlan: The Evolution of a Highland Guatemala Kingdom

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Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

The Quichés ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K’umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlán.

Robert M. Carmack re-creates the ...

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Norman 1981 Hard cover First edition. First edition New in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 435 p. Civilization of the American Indian (Hardcover). ... Audience: General/trade. Hardcover in dust jacket, FIRST EDITION stated, by Robert M. Carmack, published 1981 by University of Oklahoma Press. Book is like new, dust jacket is clean with light shelfwear (rubbing). Publisher's statement: "At the time of the Spanish conquest the Quiches were the most powerful group in the Guatemala highlands. Over a period of several hundred years they had migrated from the Gulf Coast to the region north of Lake Atitlan, established dominion over the native peoples, subjugated other Maya groups, and built a military and political empire that was comparable to the ancient empires of the Mediterranean. The Quiches ruled from the city they built in the highland plains, an architectural wonder to which they gave the splendid name K'umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlan. A markedly Read more Show Less

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Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

The Quichés ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K’umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlán.

Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life. He describes the fall of Utatlán to the conquistadors, and the Quichés’ efforts to retain a semblance of their political structure and belief system. Drawing upon archaeological discoveries and native and Spanish written documents, Carmack has produced a work that is essential to understanding the Quiché people and indispensable to a full appreciation of the immortal work the Popol Vuh, the “first book of the New World.”

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Robert M. Carmack is Professor of Anthropology in the State University of New York at Albany. The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán is the product of fourteen years spent in archaeological fieldwork and research in the great libraries and repositories of the Americas and Europe.

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