Open AccessEarly Scholars' Visits to Central America: Reports by Karl Sapper, Walter Lehmann, and Franz Termer, edited by Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and Ellen T Hardy, Theodore E Gutman, 2000
Author(s) -
Charles C. Kolb
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.11105
Subject(s) - history , mesoamerica , supporter , subject matter , narrative , ethnography , subject (documents) , art history , classics , archaeology , art , library science , sociology , literature , pedagogy , computer science , curriculum
The Cotsen Institute's Director of Publications is archaeologistMarilyn Beaudry-Corbett, herself a specialist on the production and distribution ofarchaeological ceramics in Mesoamerica and Central America and a scholar of complexsociety economic organization. Her colleague and the co-editor of this volume, EllenHardy, is a Research Associate at The Cotsen Institute and an expert on mortuary customsof the Nicoya region. Theodore (Ted) Gutman (1909-1997) was a longtime supporter of theInstitute at UCLA worked on a number of translation projects, several of which arepresented here. He was the translator of Karl Sapper's Verapaz im 16. und 17.jahrhundert, which appeared as The Verapaz in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: AContribution to the Historical Geography and Ethnography of Northeastern Guatemala (LosAngeles, University of California, Institute of Archaeology, Occasional Paper 13,1985). The contributors to the volume's narrative include, in addtion to Beaudry-Corbettand Hardy, nine other anthropologists who are recognized experts on the region andsubject matter