Pursuit of the Ancient Maya: Some Archaeologists of Yesterday

viii, 252 pp. "In telling the stories of seven later Maya archaeologists, Brunhouse now describes the coming of age of Maya studies. The subjects of this book--Teobert Maler, Alfred P. Maudslay, Sylvanus G. Morley, Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges, Herbert J. Spinden, William E. Gates, and Frans Blom--worked in an enviable climate of scholarly freedom. ...contributes solid information on several important archaeological institutions. The chapters on Gates and Blom give a good description of the establishment of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University, and other chapters offer valuable facts about Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Peabody Museum, and the School of American Research."--jacket