Memorias del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Mayistas

"Proceedings of a 1995 international conference on the Maya held in San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico). Papers focus on lowland Maya archaeology, especially of the Yucatan peninsula. Featured essays focus on bird symbolism; images of the Maya as represented in archaeological and ethnographic literature; similarities between Quiche myths in the Popol Vuh and those of central Mexico; architecture of ancient Becan (Campeche); and oral literature of modern Santa Catarina Palopo in the Guatemalan highlands. Eighteen additional papers on the archaeology of the Yucatan, ten on sites in Tabasco, Chiapas, Belize, and Peten (Guatemala), six on linguistic themes (including one on epigraphy), and two on biological anthropology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.