Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 18201915,New

Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 18201915,New

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During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its preHispanic past. Finding the junglecovered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphsand having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquitiesamateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexico's preHispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States' cultural heritage.In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenthcentury Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five wellknown figuresAmerican writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints, and the French migr photographers Dsir Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destinyinspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.

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