The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest
- ISBN-10
- 0316699160
- ISBN-13
- 9780316699167
- Category
- Indians of Central America
- Pages
- 311
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-01-01
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Authors
- Victor Perera, Robert D. Bruce
Description
"The Last Lords of Lalenque" is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha 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.
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