Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915
Autor R. Tripp Evansen Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2004
In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures—American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292722217
ISBN-10: 0292722214
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 9 b&w illustrations, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0292722214
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 9 b&w illustrations, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
R. Tripp Evans is Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Second Discovery of America
- 2. Incidents of Transcription: American Antiquity in the Work of Stephens and Catherwood
- 3. Joseph Smith and the Archaeology of Revelation
- 4. The Toltec Lens of Désiré Charnay
- 5. Bordering on the Magnificent: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in the Kingdom of Móo
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Recenzii
Evans has meticulously researched his subject and writes in an elegant and clear prose style that makes his book a pleasure to read.... In short, this is an outstanding scholarly book that should be of interest to Mayanists, art historians, and students of American literature and history.
Romancing the Maya will be required (and enjoyable) reading for students of the Maya. And its careful analysis of visual expositions—including the subjective uses of photography—makes it especially appropriate for the undergraduate classroom.
Descriere
An exploration of why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own.