Conservación arqueológica in situ

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Este libro - cuya primera edición en el FCE se publicó en 1948 - introduce al lector al extraordinario mundo del espíritu maya. Su origen se remonta a los albores de la época colonial, al afán de algunos mayas de linaje ilustre por conservar su identidad, quienes trasladaban antiguos textos jeroglíficos a la nueva escritura aprendida de los frailes españoles. Los cerca de diecisiete libros del Chilam Balam proceden de distintos poblados de la península de Yucatán y cada uno contiene escritos diversos (religiosos, históricos, cronológicos, astronómicos, médicos y poéticos) y de...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...