GIRARD, RAFAEL — Los Mayas Eternos

Mexico City: Robredo 1962 First Edition. Con 250 Fotografias, 1 Cuadro, 5 Mapas y 94 Grabados en el Texto. xiv+493 pages with 250 photographs, 94 drawings in text, 5 maps, tables (one folding) and index. HARDCOVER: (Original publisher's brown cloth , pictorials to cover and spine pict. dustjacket. Light tracces of use. VERY GOOD)) The present volume can be divided into two parts. The first section deals with the ethnography of the present day Maya, concentrating on the religious ceremonies of the Chorti-speaking Mays of eastern Guatemala and western Honduras. The second section is considerably shorter. It discusses the past and present culture of the Mayas, the various calendarical systems, the Pre-Columbian migrations in Mexico and Guatemala and an historical reconstruction of Maya civilization.