cricket@... wrote:

> I agree that Lounsbury definiteley took a back burner to Knorosov in
> the book. However, IMHO it was Coe's focus on Linda Schele and David
> Stuart that obscured him the most. Perhaps because they were the most
> active or colorful of the group?

Lin Schele was one of the greatest lecturers I ever heard -- I was
fortunate to encounter her either two or three times (most memorably at
a public lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago). Naturally, I don't
think Coe did her justice in the appendix in the reprint of his book
(which I read in the store). And didn't you find it odd that he didn't
even give the date of Knorosov's death? All I know is that it was some
time in "the last five years."

I haven't met David Stuart, but his father George Stuart is the best
historian of Maya studies. And he's very down-to-earth about David's
abilities; which I attribute to his being a native speaker of one of the
modern Mayan languages as well as of English (since from babyhood he was
in Guatemala on expeditions every year) and to his learning glyphs along
with learning to read English. (George is at the National Geographic
Society.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...