Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples - Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands

"It is exciting to have a translation of these important early documents finally available. Feldman is widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars in Central American ethnohistoric studies. His grasp of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish and paleography is superior, his translations are accurate and faithful to the documents while being understandable to the nonspecialist, and the amount of cultural, geographic, and economic information contained in these documents is amazing."--Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University

List of contents

Illustrations xi

Note to the Reader xiii

Preface xv

1 Beginnings. 1574-1606 1

2 Georgraphy of the Lowlands: Gabriel Salazar, 1620 21

3 Across the Ocean Sea: Martin Tovilla, 1630 55

4 Borderlands: Martin Tovilla, 1635 85

5 Coming of the Soldiers: Martin Tovilla. 1635 116

6 The Lies of Friar Moran, 1636 151

7 Between Two Worlds ,1653-1654 158

8 The Rediscovery of the Manché Chol, 1676 170

9 The Itinerary of Friar Joseph Delgado, 1677 181

10 Collection and Removal, 1685-1700 187

11 Raids of the Mosquito Zambo, 1704-1733 217

Postscript and Further Readings, 1766-1733 221

Appendices 223

About the author

Lawrence H. Feldman, editor and translator

Summary

A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize.

Product details

• Authors: Feldman
• Assisted by: Lawrence H Feldman (Editor), Lawrence H. Feldman (Editor), Lawrence H. Feldman (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2001
• EAN: 9780822326304
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2630-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Illustrations: 15 figures
• Series: Latin America in Translation; Latin America in Translation/E; Latin America in Translation
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Anthropologie, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte