The Maya : lost civilizations

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The Maya : lost civilizations / Megan E. O'Neil.

O'Neil, Megan E. (Megan Eileen), (author.).

Summary:

"The Maya reveals how this ancient civilization--its buildings, ideas, objects and identities--has been perceived, portrayed and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O'Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists. Taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world's fairs and Indigenous activism, she looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists' responses, and contemporary Maya people's engagements with their ancestral past, to explore the history and legacy of this fascinating culture."-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9781789145502
ISBN: 1789145503
Physical Description: 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Art and architecture -- Places, politics and history -- Contact and conquest, resistance and resilience, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Exploration, documentation and the search for origins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Rediscovering Maya histories in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Collecting and exhibiting the ancient Maya in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Ancient Maya in popular culture, architecture and visual arts -- Contemporary Maya arts, education and activism.