Abstract

LEON CAZARES, María del Carmen. New Light on an Old Testimony about the Maya: the Report of the Expedition Commanded by Juan de Grijalva. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2015, vol.45, pp.49-89. ISSN 0185-2574.

In this research we pretend to highlight the importance of submitting historical texts, used as trustable sources of knowledge, under ecdotics review and historiographical analysis; its particular aim is to present the current advances achieved in the study of the first printed testimony of the Maya culture before the Conquest. In search of understanding the author"s geographical point of view used in the report, the current ideas of the context of writing are analyzed. To explain the problems of transmission, sixteenth century printed editions were studied. As to the question of its authorship, we propose a different one to the accepted from the Mexican edition of the nineteenth century.

Keywords : historiography; geography; cartography; exploration; printing.

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