Maya Worlds 2006

Participants' Required Text List

 

Please note that the Institute scholars' have identified these texts as basic to their seminars; it is the responsibility of each participant to acquire these texts prior to the Institute and to bring them to the relevant seminars. Most other readings in the Daily Schedule will be supplied in Institute Readers, which will be sent to each participant well before the start of the Institute. Others will be available through an "Institute Lending Library" that will be made available during the Institute by the project directors.

 

 

Coe, Michael. The Maya, 7th ed. NY: Thames & Hudson, 2005.

 

Fash, William. Scribes, Warriors & Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya. NY: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

 

González, Gaspar Pedro.  Return of the Maya. Yax Te' Press, 1998.

 

Gossen, Gary. Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities iin Modern Mexico. NY: Routledge, 1999.

 

Grube, Nicolai and Simon Martin. Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

 

Harrison, Peter. The Lords of Tikal. Thames and Hudson, 1999.

 

Hendrickson, Carol. Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemalan Town . Austin: University of Texas, 1995.

 

Lovell, George. Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala. 3rd ed. Austin: University of Texas, 2004.

 

Montejo, Victor. Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1987.

 

Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, revised ed. Tr. Dennis Tedlock. N.Y.: Simon & Shuster, 1996.