First, let me tell you a little bit about Na Bolom, House of the Jaguar. This combination museum, study center, and guest quarters, housed in a converted monastery in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, has a decided late-nineteenth-century feel. The faded photographs of Indians of the Lacandón rainforest, the shadowy book-lined library, the personal […]
Maya Threads: A Woven History of Chiapas was more than three years in the making for me, and many more years than that for author Chip Morris and his co-author Carol Karasik. A very long gestation period, you might say. So now, finally, the book is off press, copies are in the national distributor’s warehouse, […]