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September 11, 2006
R. Tripp Evans Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820–1915 Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 224 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0292702477)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.93

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For many scholars, the historiography of their own fields is a late-career feat, arrived at after decades of slow rumination—George Kubler’s Aesthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991) comes immediately to mind. This slim volume, by contrast, is the reworking of a dissertation (Yale, 1998). Its five chapters are written with vigor and freshness, and while they lack the intellectual heft of Kubler’s work (though this could be said of...