Abstract
The Cotsen Institute's Director of Publications is archaeologist Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, herself a specialist on the production and distribution of archaeological ceramics in Mesoamerica and Central America and a scholar of complex society economic organization. Her colleague and the co-editor of this volume, Ellen Hardy, is a Research Associate at The Cotsen Institute and an expert on mortuary customs of the Nicoya region. Theodore (Ted) Gutman (1909-1997) was a longtime supporter of the Institute at UCLA worked on a number of translation projects, several of which are presented here. He was the translator of Karl Sapper's Verapaz im 16. und 17. jahrhundert, which appeared as The Verapaz in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Contribution to the Historical Geography and Ethnography of Northeastern Guatemala (Los Angeles, University of California, Institute of Archaeology, Occasional Paper 13, 1985). The contributors to the volume's narrative include, in addtion to Beaudry-Corbett and Hardy, nine other anthropologists who are recognized experts on the region and subject matter.
Highlights
The volume includes the English renderings of nine never before translated German language ar ticles written by three scholars who were preeminent in Central American studies during the early 20th century
Karl Theodor Sapper (1866-194-), a German geographer who held a doctorate from the University of Munich ( I X88), lived in the Alia Verapaz for 12 years during a period of German colonialism. His brother Richard owned a large coffee finca that he used as a base for his studies of geology, geography, ethnology, archaeology, linguistics, history, and physical anthropology
Leventhal (UCLA) prepared the introduction, "Karl Sapper, WaIter Lehmann, and Franz Termer and the Study of Central America," This five-page essay accompanied by one regional map provides a context for the nine selections that follow by considering Central America at the end of the 19th century. early explorers and entrepreneurs (Squire, Brigham, Sanbom, and Keable). and academic research reported at the International Con gress of Americanists meetings (1904 through 1949)
Summary
Scholars' Visits to Central America: Reports by Karl Sapper, WalterLehmann, andFranz Termer, edited by Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and Ellen T. The volume includes the English renderings of nine never before translated German language ar ticles written by three scholars who were preeminent in Central American studies during the early 20th century. Beaudry-Corbett and Hardy's edited publication includes ten chapters, comprised of an introduction followed by seven articles written by Karl Sapper, and one each by Walter Lehmann and by Franz Termer.
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