Author:
O'Neil, Megan E. (Megan Eileen) author.
ImprintLondon, UK : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Description296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
Note:This book reveals how the ancient Maya- and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities- have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book 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. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists' responses, and contemporary Maya people's engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.
