[Aztlan] Mexico's Unconquered Maya Hold Tight to Their Old Ways

[Elaine Schele]

Hi Everyone,

It's great to see the attention that National Geographic has given to
the Lancandon Maya as well as to the great work that Joel Palka and
Sánchez Balderas's have been doing in their observation of this
fascinating group, but the statement that NG made - "Joel's is the
only project that follows the cultural transformation of the free
Lacandon from the 16th century to the present" - is a little
simplistic.

We should not forget R. Jon McGee's ethnographic work (Texas State
University in San Marcos) on the contemporary Lacandon Maya ("Watching
Lacandon Maya Lives" and "Life, Ritual, and Religion Among the
Lacandon Maya" on Google Books at http://books.google.com/).

I noticed also that the article does not mention Tozzer's 1907 "A
Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones"

Elaine

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Edward Allen <ekbalam at windstream.net> wrote:
> List Members;  Interesting article on post-conquest Maya that resisted assimilation in remote areas such as Chiapas and the Lacandon.
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090114-unconquered-maya-missions.html
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