Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya

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 [email protected].