Redobles por Manuel Scorza

Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.

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Se da la paradoja, en nuestros días, de que nunca ha habido más controversia en torno a la historia, o incluso obsesión por ella, para deformarla, negarla o reinterpretarla; en relación con los monumentos históricos y el contenido de los libros de texto; en forma de proliferación de comisiones de la verdad, museos y exposiciones, y sin embargo nunca ha habido menos inquietud por la "verdad histórica". La historia se ha convertido en nuestros días en un instrumento que cada cual moldea y esgrime a su conveniencia con el fin de blanquear o dar una pátina de seriedad a motivos muy a...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...