Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own.
Trade ReviewEvans 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. * The Americas *
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. * The Journal of Latin American Anthropology *
Table of Contents
- 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
