La Civilización de Los Antiguos Mayas

Lhuillier, Alberto Ruz, La Civilización de Los Antiguos Mayas, Santiago de Cuba: Universidad de Oriente, 1957.[dos copias]

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal. Ruz Lhuillier is sometimes referred to as the "Hitchcock of Archaeology".

Descripción:

El presente volumen reúne cuatro conferencias dictadas por el autor, Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, en distintas universidades entre 1954 y 1955. Presenta en líneas muy generales, con el rigor del historiador y la pasión del amante de nuestras civilizaciones precolombinas, una visión integradora del pueblo maya desde sus orígenes que rescata la esencia de una tradición cultural viva aun en el México de hoy.

De las Palabras de Presentación:

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier … es hijo de padre cubano, francés por el lado materno y mexicano por adopción y devota dedicación durante los últimos veinte años. Nacido en Paris, en Francia terminó sus estudios preliminares. Al regresar a Cuba se matriculo en la Universidad de la Habana, donde cursó dos años de estudios. Estos quedaron interrumpidos al clausurarse aquel centro superior de estudios por la dictadura machadista, de triste recuerdo. Ruz, sensible a sus deberes cívicos, se enroló decidido en las luchas estudiantiles del año 30, que al final, como siempre tiene que ser, dieron al traste con la tiranía. Corrió graves riesgos y sufrió prisiones. Trasladado a la hermana Republica de México, allí encontró trabajo y alero. Primer arqueólogo graduado de la prestigiosa Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México, obtuvo el titulo en Ciencias Antropológicas, en la Universidad Autónoma de México, desde 1940. Fue otorgado en 1945 una beca por el gobierno francés para estudios post-graduados que realizo en el Instituto de Etnología, en el Museo de Hombre y en la Escuela de Lenguas Orientales, todas de Paris. Ha sido profesor de Historia, de Lengua francesa y arqueólogo del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Ha realizado intensa labor arqueológica de campo en Monte Alban y Monte Negro, (Estado de Oaxaca); Tula ( Estado de Hidalgo); Xicalango, Isla del Carmen, Tixchel, Champotón, Ciudad de Campeche y Edzna (Estado de Campeche); Kabah y Uxmal, (Estado de Yucatán) y Palenque (Estado de Chiapas), todos en México. Es miembro de la Sociedad Americanista de Paris, de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología y de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. Miembro Honorario de la sociedad Nacional Hispánica Sigma Delta Pi (Estados Unidos de Norteamérica). Ha escrito y disertado profusamente en torno a su especialidad.

Cuijla: Esbozo Etnográfico de un Pueblo Negro

Aguirre Beltrán, Gonzalo, Cuijla: Esbozo Etnográfico de un Pueblo Negro, México y Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1958.

Citado en Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana © 1986.

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El libro trata sobre los aspectos de una sociedad pequeña que, en el momento en que se estudió -finales de los años cincuenta-, mantenía muy pocos contactos con el resto del país debido a la falta de comunicaciones. Gracias a ello, la mayor parte de sus costumbres y tradiciones se mantenían virtualmente puras, tal como existieron hace 300 años. El autor reconstruye la historia de ese pueblo y describe la organización social de los cuijleños.

Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán (Tlacotalpan, Veracruz; 20 de enero de 1908 - Xalapa; 1996). Fue un médico y antropólogo mexicano. Se graduó como Médico Cirujano en 1931 en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y comenzó a ejercer su profesión en la región de Huatusco, en su estado natal. En 1940 publicó El Señorío de Cuautochco: luchas agrarias en México durante el Virreinato un estudio sobre la tierra, la dominación del indio, la resistencia, los cambios culturales, la organización sociopolítica local y las condiciones socioeconómicas de la salud en la región de Huatusco. En 1941 se radicó en Ciudad de México como biólogo, en el Departamento Demográfico de la Secretaría de Gobernación, donde entabló una fructífera amistad con Manuel Gamio, pionero de la antropología mexicana. Fue cofundador del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Proverbes Créoles de Guadeloupe

Zagaya, Proverbes créoles de Guadeloupe, préface par Guy Lasserre, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, 1965.

Excerpt from Ellen M. Schnepel’s In Search of a National Identity: Creole and Politics in Guadeloupe:

In Guadeloupe, a number of priests participated in the Creole revival, thus continuing the association or tradition of priestly involvement with intellectual endeavors in the New World. Among the native priests were Père Robert Germain, who wrote an early grammar of Creole (1976); Père Colbac, who advanced his unique Creole orthography that was neither etymological nor phonemic, but a complex opaque mixture of the two; Père Ezelias, who instituted a novel Creole liturgy that included prayers, chants and hymns; and a few other priests who preached in Creole. Perhaps the best known is Père Barbotin, a French priest who resided in Guadeloupe from 1951 until 1989, when he was transferred to French Guiana. Using the pseudonym “Zagaya, » he collected Creole proverbs (1965) and later documented the rich folklore and traditional life of Marie-Galante where he lived, principally in the town of Saint-Louis. Dictionnaire du créole de Marie-Galante (1995) was the fruit of Père Barbotin’s long and exacting ethnographic research. The dictionary provides an authentic vision of the lexicon of Marie-Galante, where traditional rural life remains much more intact than elsewhere in the Guadeloupean archipelago, while it cites examples of the particularities in the Creole of Marie-Galante compared to the Creole of Guadeloupe.

Una Holandesa en América: novela

Acosta de Samper, Soledad, Una Holandesa en América: novela, Curazao: A. Bethencourt e Hijos, 1888.

Disponible en linea.

Ficha Bibliográfica.

Soledad Acosta Kemble (5 May 1833 — 17 March 1913)[1] was a Colombian writer and journalist. A sophisticated, well-travelled, and social woman, she received a much higher and better rounded education than most women of her time and country, and enjoyed a high standing in society, not only for her family background, but for her own literary endeavours. She collaborated in various newspapers including El Comercio, El Deber, and Revista Americana, among other periodicals. Using her writings, she was a feminist well ahead of her time, she lobbied for equal education for women, and wrote on various topics pertaining to female participation in society and family, encouraging others to become proactive in the workforce and in the restoration of society.

Insurgent Mexico

Reed, John, Insurgent Mexico, United States: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

Available online.

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John Silas "Jack" Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World.
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In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution.[17] He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional (Constitutionalist) Army (whose "Primer Jefe" was Venustiano Carranza) when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City.[18] Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Reed a national reputation as a war correspondent. Reed deeply sympathized with the plight of the peons and vehemently opposed American intervention, which came shortly after he left. Reed adored Villa, while Carranza left him cold. Reed's Mexican reports were later republished in book form as Insurgent Mexico, which appeared in 1914.

The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation

Vaillant, George Clapp, The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1951.

Available at Questia.

See also American Anthropologist © 1945.

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George Clapp Vaillant (April 5, 1901, – May 13, 1945) was an American anthropologist.
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Vaillant was known for the reconstruction of the early stages of Mexican Culture. His excavations at Zacatenco, Ticomán and El Arbollo established the framework for the Formative or Preclassic period in central Mexico. He was also known for his synthesis of Aztec history, which is also written in Aztecs in Mexico. Throughout his research of relating archaeology to the events and descriptions of colonial sources and Mexican traditions, Vaillant concentrated on problems of chronology and culture history. Later in his career Vaillant excavated at several Aztec sites (Chiconautla and Nonoalco), but failed to publish these projects. Several decades later Christina Elson and other scholars at the American Museum of Natural History completed the study of artifacts from these sites and began a program to publish them.

From the Foreword:

This book is a history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico and the civilizations which they wrought. It was a hard book to write. It will be a hard book to read. There are two reasons for this unfortunate circumstance. First, the Indians did not have the same goals in life that we have, so that their pattern of life is different from our own and difficult to understand. Second, Indian history has to be reconstructed from what we can find, so that much of the material, like techniques of making household implements, does not fall within the scope of our usual historical reading. The first four chapters deal with such reconstruction, and the reader is warned in advance that the going will be very difficult. These pages may be skipped if he is not particularly interested in such a historical background. The remaining chapters are based on contemporary observations made by conquering Spaniards and by the Aztecs themselves.

Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Covarrubias, Miguel, Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

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Reviewed in the American Sociological Review © 1947.

Reviewed in the American Anthropologist © 1947.

From the book-cover:

”The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a bottleneck of jungle and brush shared in equal parts by the states of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, separating rather than uniting four important states – Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas – from the rest of Mexico. It is the true natural frontier between mountain chains that run down the Continent and break into low hills with narrow passes that have been, since the days of Cortes, a focus of interest, oft-renewed, as a means of communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.” Thus Covarrubias. The means by which he has evoked the very nature of that region are geography, ethnology, anthropology, archaeology, history, economics, plastic arts, literature, music, folklore, religion, food, drink, sexual customs, and a dozen others. The result is a brilliant evocation of an entire civilization, throwing light upon the history and culture of all Mexico.