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This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired in large part by his discovery of the work of German-Austrian explorer Teobert Maler, who photographed them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of Frej's magnificent photographs are juxtaposed here with historic photographs taken by Maler, and reveal the changes in the landscape that have occurred in the intervening century.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
William Frej has spent decades photographing remote cultures around the world while living in Indonesia, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan, as well as other remote, mountainous regions of Asia. He has visited over 180 Maya archaeological sites in Mexico and Guatemala, over half of which were first photographed by Teobert Maler. His work has been featured in a number of venues in the United States and Mexico.
Alma Durán-Merk has published extensively in the field of migration ethno-history. Her books include
In Our Sphere of Life: German-Speaking Immigrants in Yucatán and their Descendants, 1876-1914, and
Villa Carlota: German Settlements in Yucatán, 1864-1897.>
Stephan Merk is considered one of the foremost experts on Teobert Maler. He has written two books about Maya Puuc architecture, and has served as a co-editor of
Mexicon - Journal of Mesoamerican Studies since 1998.
Jeremy A. Sabloff is an archaeologist with a specialty in ancient Maya civilization. He is an external professor and past president of the Santa Fe Institute and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of ten books and monographs, as well as the editor or co-editor of fourteen books.
Khristaan D. Villella is the Director of the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He specializes in the history of Pre-Columbian and Latin American art and on the reception of ancient American culture in the modern world, and is the author, most recently, of
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas: Man, Nature, and Spirit in Pre-Columbian Art (Miho Museum, 2011).
