Bibliographic Resources
This section contains information about bibliographic resources that are relevant to the study of Maya culture. Besides a list of publications and periodicals that deal with Maya Studies, we provide information about libraries and archives in Europe and Overseas and list links to helpful online bibliographies.
Furthermore, we list the addresses of the most important book stores which sell books on Maya and Mesoamerican Studies. Where possible we provide you with relevant order information.
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These links provide the contents of periodicals as well as abstracts and full texts.
- Amerindia
- Ancient Mesoamerica
- Antiquity
- Arqueología Mexicana
- Aztlan E-Journal
- BAR Publishing
- Boletín del Proyecto La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México
- Current Anthropology
- Human Mosaic
- Ichcanzihó:Los nacidos de la serpiente
- Latin American Antiquity
- Mexicon
- National Geographic Magazine
- Mundo Maya Magazine On Line
- RES
- Revista Española de Antropología Americana
- Revista Xaman
- Yumtzilob – Website over de America’s
These links offer access to library catalogues and other services like lending or photocopies.
France
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
site François-Mitterrand
Quai François-Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13
Departement des Manuscrits, Richelieu-Louvois
58 Rue de Richelieu et 2 Rue Louvois
75002 Paris
Of special interest:
- Codex Paris
Germany
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI)
Potsdamer Str. 37
D-10785 Berlin
Phone: +49-30-266-2500
Fax: +49-30-266-2503
E-mail: iai@iai.spk-berlin.de
Estates and Miscellanea
Curator: Dr. G. Wolff
Phone: +49-30-266-2516
Pre-Columbian Section
Curator: Dr. Peter Masson
Phone: +49-30-266-2511
Of special interest:
- Estates of Eduard Seler, Teobert Maler, Walter Lehmann, Gerdt Kutscher, Konrad Theodor Preuss among others
- Image archive
Guatemala
Archivo Arzobispal
7ta Avenida, 7-21
Zona 1
Guatemala Ciudad
Archivo General de Centro América
4ta Avenida, 7-41
Zona 1
Guatemala Ciudad
Phone: (502)-232-3037
Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala
5a Avenida 7-26 Zona 1
Phone: (502) 2322443
Fax: 2539071
E-Mail: biblioguatemala@intelnett.com
Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA)
Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales Centroamericanas
Archivo Histórico Guatemala
5ta calle Oriente, No.5
La Antigua
Phone: (502)-832-0126 or -1007
Fax: (502)-832-2083
E-Mail: cirma@cirma.ws
Of special interest:
- Estates of Franz Termer and others
Biblioteca Ludwig von Mises
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
6ta. Calle final
Zona 10
Guatemala Ciudad
Phone: (502)-338-7818
Fax: (502)-332-2620
E-Mail: biblio@ufm.edu.gt
Italy
Biblioteca Americanistica “Federico Lunardi” – Biblioteca A.I.S.A.
Salita Santa Maria della Sanità 43
Villa Gruber
16122 Genova
Phone: +39-010-814737
Of special interest:
- Photographs, field diaries and manuscripts by Federico Lunardi
Mexico
Archivo General de la Nación
Col. Penitenciaría Ampliación Deleg. Venustiano Carranza 15350, México, D.F.
Phone: 5133-9900 (conmutador), Visitas guiadas: ext. 19329 y 19423
Fax: 5789-5296
E-Mail: agn@segob.gob.mx
Spain
Archivo General de Indias
Avda. de la Constitución, 3
E-41071 Sevilla
Edificio de La Cilla
Calle Santo Tomás, 5
Phone: +34-954-500-530 or -500-528
Fax: +34-954-219-485
E-Mail: agi1@cult.mec.es
United States
Benson Latin American Collection
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713-8916
Phone: +1-512-495-4520
Fax: +1-512-495-4568
E-Mail: blac@lib.utexas.edu
Tozzer Library of the Harvard College Library
Harvard University
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: +1-617-495-2253
Fax: +1-617-496-2741
E-Mail: berstler@fas.harvard.edu
Of special interest:
- Bowditch-Gates and Scholes collection
- Field notes by Alfred Tozzer and Sylvanus G. Morley
- Manuscripts by Ernst Förstemann
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
Phone: +1-312-943-9090 (automated answering)
Edward E. Ayer Collection on Latin American History:
Librarian: John Aubrey
Phone: +1-312-255-3693
Of special interest:
- Francisco Ximénez’ Arte de las tres lenguas (Ayer MS 1515)
- Colonial Manuscripts on Mayan languages
- Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts
- Jean Frederic Waldeck Materials
Latin American Library
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Phone: +1-504-865-5681
Fax: +1-504-862-8970
E-Mail: Hortensia Calvo, Director
Of special interest:
- Frans Blom’s field notes
- William Gates collection
- Merle Greene Robertson’s rubbings of Maya relief sculpture
- Photographic collections
- Object collections
- Crónica de Maní
- Crónica de Chicxulub
- Juan Pío Pérez’ copy of the San Francisco dictionary
- Historic maps
University of Pennsylvania Museum Library
University of Pennsylvania
3260 South Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6324
Phone: 215-898-4021
E-Mail: muselib@pobox.upenn.edu
Of special interest:
- Daniel Garrison Brinton Library
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Fax: +1-202-339-6419
E-Mail: Pre-Columbian@doaks.org
Pre-Columbian Director: Jeffrey Quilter
Phone: +1-202-339-6440
Of special interest:
- Photos collection
- Objects collection
These links offer bibliographic information and databases.
This section contains a list of businesses that sell books related to Mesoamerican Cultures. You will be able to find most of the books recommended at Amazon (see below).
Verlag Anton Saurwein
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Other Stores
- Archaeologia Books
- BAR International Series, Titles on American Archaeology
- Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, CIRMA
- Editorial Cholsamaj
- Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
- UMI Dissertation Service
- University of Chicago Press
- University of Oklahoma Press
- University of Texas Press
- Yax Te’ Foundation
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