A lberto Ruz Lhuillier: Engaging the Mind With Academic Discourse
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v42i2.241-259Keywords:
Alberto Ruz, Yuri Knorosov, Gordon Ekholm, academic debate, Maya Area, 20th centuryAbstract
The name Alberto Ruz Lhuillier is closely associated with the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Maya ruler K’inich Janaab’ Pakal of Palenque. It was discovered in 1952, which brought him fame and admiration. He spent the next ten years of his life
documenting and analyzing the discovery, but in those same years he found the energy to engage in stimulating debates that took place on the pages of books and academic journals. In this article, we summarize four of them. These controversies were not as sensational as the discovery of the elaborate royal tomb and thus were dampened by the publicity that exploded after the discovery. The controversial discourses center on two main themes: Maya epigraphy and artistic diffusion and were notable in that they were early insights. Many of their ideas are relevant even today, which is remarkable considering that they were developed in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, many years before the expansion of knowledge about the history and art of the ancient Maya that to which we have access today.
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