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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Stephen D. Houston  and
William R. Fowler Jr
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Extract

In this special section we celebrate an unusual kind of anniversary: the publication 50 years ago of Clyde Kluckhohn's “The Conceptual Structure in Middle American Studies” (Hay et al. 1940:41–51). With this short but powerful essay, Kluckhohn indicted Maya archaeology in general, and the massive program of research by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in particular, as something close to “stamp collecting” and the putterings of “slightly reformed antiquarians.” For better or worse, Kluckhohn hastened the demise of what was until that time the most broadly conceived and well executed research program in New World archaeology – the Carnegie's attempt to understand Maya civilization in both its earliest and latest expressions and from a large number of disciplinary perspectives.

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Special Section: Remembering Carnegie Archaeology
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Fall 1990 , pp. 245
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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