William E. Gates
Encyclopedia
William Edmond Gates was an American
Mayanist
and collector of Mesoamerican manuscripts
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United States
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Mayanist
Mayanist
A Mayanist is a scholar specialising in research and study of the Central American pre-Columbian Maya civilization. This discipline should not be confused with Mayanism, a collection of New Age beliefs about the ancient Maya....
and collector of Mesoamerican manuscripts
Mesoamerican literature
The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. Many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are known to have been literate societies, who produced a...
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Published works
Gates' published works include:- The Maya and Tzental Calendars. Comprising the Complete Series of Days, With Their Positions in the Month, For each One of the Fifty-Two years of the Cycle, According to Each System (1900)
- Commentary upon the Maya-Tzental Perez codex (1910)
- An Outline Dictionary of Maya GlyphsAn Outline Dictionary of Maya GlyphsAn Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs: With a Concordance and Analysis of Their Relationships is a monograph study of the Maya script by William E. Gates, first published in 1931. The inventory of glyphs used in Gates' analysis was compiled and drawn from the Madrid, Dresden and Paris codices,...
(1931) - The Dresden codex (1932)
- The Madrid Maya codex (1933)
- Rural education in Mexico and the Indian problem (1935)
- The Maya society and its work (1937)
- Yucatan before and after the conquest: The Maya (1937) (Translation of Relacíon de las cosas de YucatánRelacíon de las cosas de YucatánRelación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa Calderón circa 1566 shortly after his return to Spain after serving as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán in the sixteenth century...
) - A grammar of Maya (1938)
- The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec herbal of 1552 (1939)