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Yucatan Through Her Eyes
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
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- English
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Yucatan Through Her Eyes
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer
About this book
Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and systematically photograph the Maya sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. After spending eleven years in the field, she devoted the rest of her life to lecturing and published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including her exploration of Maya civilization, political activism and social justice, and epic poetry.
Alice's papers became public in 1999 and included photographs, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and a handwritten diary; over two thousand of her prints and negatives survive today in public and private collections. Combined with Lawrence Desmond's biography of this remarkable woman's life, her diary offers readers a rare glimpse of life in the Yucatán peninsula during the final quarter of the nineteenth century, and an insider's view of fieldwork just prior to the emergence of Mesoamerican archaeology as a professional discipline.
Alice's papers became public in 1999 and included photographs, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and a handwritten diary; over two thousand of her prints and negatives survive today in public and private collections. Combined with Lawrence Desmond's biography of this remarkable woman's life, her diary offers readers a rare glimpse of life in the Yucatán peninsula during the final quarter of the nineteenth century, and an insider's view of fieldwork just prior to the emergence of Mesoamerican archaeology as a professional discipline.
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Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: London and New York
- Part II: Yucatán
- Part III: The Islands, Belize, Mexico City, and the Return to Yucatán
- Part IV: New York
- Epilogue
- Appendix One: Augustus Le Plongeon’s Exploration of the Interior of the Pyramid of Kinich Kak Moo, Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico
- Appendix Two: “The Hunter”
- Appendix Three: “The Passing of an Enlightened Soul”
- Appendix Four: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon’s Letter to Her Parents, Henry and Sophia Dixon: December 1875 and January 1876
- Notes
- References
- Index