[Aztlan] Maya Meetings and the Austin Chronicle

[Elaine Day Schele]

Good Morning Listeros.  Below are the words to part of story found in
Friday’s Austin Chronicle:

Living Maya: Austin becomes a hotbed of past and future Maya knowledge

BY  <http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Archive/author?oid=oid%3A73917>
ROB D'AMICO

Linda Schele was always quite a show.

A towering figure, both physically and intellectually, she strode across the
stages and workshop rooms at the annual University of Texas Maya Meetings,
often peppering her language with curses and enthusiastic exclamations at
moments of discovery. She liked the attention she commanded, and it fed her
enjoyment in being at the forefront of research on the ancient Maya. And
unlike many of her counterparts in academia, who zealously defend their
findings from competing scholars, Schele encouraged lively discussion and
revision of her theories, not only among the elite ranks of archaeologists,
epigraphers, and art historians of Harvard, Yale, and the like, but also
among those with no formal training. "She had a guru quality about her, and
people would come from all over the world to Austin to hear her
pronouncements," said David Stuart, a longtime Schele friend and protégé who
now heads the UT-Austin Mesoamerica Center.

For more on the story go to:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:618737

 

Elaine