Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya
About this Event
1032 W. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60660
Dr. Richard Jobs talks about his new graphic history on the imperial history of exploration, science, and media. Learn about Bernard de Colmont, a French ethnologist, who went to the borderlands of Mexico-Guatemala to study, film, and record the Lacandón people in 1933 and 1935. The Lacandón were considered a "lost tribe" remotely located in the mountains of Chiapas and deemed to be the closest living relatives of the Maya.
For information, contact Dr. Suzanne Kaufman at skaufma@luc.edu.