Coe, Michael (Douglas)

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COE, Michael (Douglas)

COE, Michael (Douglas). American, b. 1929. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Food and Wine. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, 1960-62, assistant professor, 1962-63; professor, 1968-94, emeritus professor of anthropology, 1994-. Publications: La Victoria, 1961; Mexico, 1962; The Jaguar's Children: Preclassic Central Mexico, 1965; The Maya, 1966, rev. ed., 1993; (with K.V. Flannery) Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala, 1967: America's First Civilization, 1968; The Maya Scribe and His World, 1973; Classic Maya Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks, 1975; The Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics, 1978; (with R.A. Diehl) In the Land of the Olmec, 1980; Old Gods and Young Heroes: The Pearlman Collection of Maya Ceramics, 1982; (with G. Whittaker) Aztec Sorcerers in Seventeenth Century Mexico: The Treatise on Superstitions by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, 1983; (with D. Snow and E. Benson) Atlas of Ancient America, 1987; Breaking the Maya Code, 1992; (with S.D. Coe) The True History of Chocolate, 1996; (with J. Kerr) The Art of the Maya Scribe, 1997; (with M. Van Stone) Reading the Maya Glyphs, 2001; Angkor and the Khmer Civilization, 2003. Address: 376 St Ronan St, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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