Tom Beale's Reviews > The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

It's sad Restall has to have a go at all 'nonacademic' (used as a pejorative) writers on the Maya. I don't see how his comments about theories of the Maya origins are helpful, if anything they will just further deepen the antagonism towards academia from such proponents. In particular his claims that these writers are white supremacists are without any reference or citation, and he fails to specify which writers he believes are white supremacists. It's like a shadow punch at the culture wars from an otherwise sound book.