Incidents Of Travel In Chichen Itza
(2014, original release: 1997)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1115729
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one temple pyramid
Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1997
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English, Subtitles in English