Research Catalog

Title

El fabuloso saqueo del cenote sagrado de Chichén Itzá / Pedro Castro.

Author

Castro, Pedro

Publication

Ciudad de México : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana : Tirant Humanidades, 2016.

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Description

236 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

The fabulous plundering of the sacred cenote of Chichén Itzá is about the predatory explorations of the American consul Edward H. Thompson in Yucatan, who since the late nineteenth century and entered the twenties, under the patronage of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and other North American museums. The success of this adventure is evident in the illegal exit of around 30,000 archaeological pieces of various materials, without being detected during three decades, thanks to the complacency of President Porfirio Diaz, Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto and other smaller officials. The government of President Plutarco Elías Calles filed civil and criminal charges against the American, but years later the Supreme Court decided to definitively protect Thompson's succession, sparing an attack on Mexico's cultural heritage. This book tells of the activities of the adventurer Thompson, the sponsorship of the Peabody Museum and the failed efforts of the Mexican archaeological authorities to get the pieces back to the country. The book includes a code to download an e-book.

Series Statement

Plural

Uniform Title

Plural.

Subject

• Thompson, Edward Herbert, 1860-1935
• Cultural property > Protection > Mexico
• Mayas > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Yucatán (State) > History
• Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
• Yucatán (Mexico : State) > History
• Yucatán (Mexico : State) > Antiquities

Note

• "Plus e-book gratis"--Cover.
• Access to a free e-book using a promotional code printed inside, hidden under scratch-off material.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

I. Thompson, su llegada a México y primeros trabajos -- II. Chichén Itzá, el Cenote Sagrado y sus imaginarios -- III. Una hacienda caída del cielo maya -- IV. Una draga en el bosque tropical -- V. Más secretos de la draga -- VI. Santiago Bolio y la visita de Justo Sierra -- VII. El cónsul pierde su puesto y continúa en el Cenote -- VIII. El excónsul es ahora "arqueólogo" de tiempo completo -- IX. Un incendio en la plantación -- X. La apropiación simbólica del Estado posrevolucionario -- XI. El proceso civil y penal contra Thompson -- XII. Defensa y amparo federal para Thompson -- Epílogo.

ISBN

• 9786072807846
• 6072807844
• 9788416786329
• 8416786321

OCLC

• ocn987268942
• 987268942
• SCSB-5890215

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries