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- catalog abstract ""In this work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures - American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French emigre photographers Desire Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13222014.
- catalog coverage "Mexico Antiquities.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In this work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures - American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French emigre photographers Desire Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The second discovery of America -- Incidents of transcription : "American" antiquity in the work of Stephens and Catherwood -- Joseph Smith and the archaeology of revelation -- The Toltec lens of Désiré Charnay -- Bordering on the magnificent : Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in the Kingdom of Móo.".
- catalog description "Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 202 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Romancing the Maya.".
- catalog identifier "0292702477 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Romancing the Maya.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Romancing the Maya.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog spatial "Mexico.".
- catalog subject "972.8105 22".
- catalog subject "Archaeological expeditions Mexico History.".
- catalog subject "Architecture Attribution.".
- catalog subject "Architecture Mexico Attribution.".
- catalog subject "Catherwood, Frederick.".
- catalog subject "Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915.".
- catalog subject "Cultural property Mexico.".
- catalog subject "F1435 .E88 2004".
- catalog subject "Le Plongeon, Alice D. (Alice Dixon), 1851-1910.".
- catalog subject "Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908.".
- catalog subject "Maya architecture Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Mayas Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "Mayas Middle Eastern influences.".
- catalog subject "Mayas Transatlantic influences.".
- catalog subject "Mayas in popular culture.".
- catalog subject "Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844.".
- catalog subject "Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.".
- catalog subject "Stephens, John L., 1805-1852.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The second discovery of America -- Incidents of transcription : "American" antiquity in the work of Stephens and Catherwood -- Joseph Smith and the archaeology of revelation -- The Toltec lens of Désiré Charnay -- Bordering on the magnificent : Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in the Kingdom of Móo.".
- catalog title "Romancing the Maya : Mexican antiquity in the American imagination, 1820-1915 / R. Tripp Evans.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".