James Clay Thompson

Abstract

way to promote mutual understanding and achieve a lasting peace in the Korean peninsula. Like a number of other professors in the various departments and colleges of the University, he helped to establish the international reputation of Western Michigan University. A separate collection consisting of his personal library, his publications, and other works on Korea, Asia, military studies and political development will be established in Waldo Library at Western Michigan University. In 1984 Gene Kim was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Western Michigan University. This is how many will remember him, but his close friends and colleagues will also remember his good humor, ready smile, and generosity of spirit and good will.

The Sword and the Olive Jar: Material Evidence of Seventeenth-Century Maya-European Interaction in Central Belize

“…It is also well documented that pre-Hispanic Maya cave rituals continued unabated during the early colonial period and that they continue to be celebrated today, albeit with some modifications (Adams and Brady 2005;Brady 1989;Chuchiak 2006;Graham, Pendergast, and Jones 1989;Prufer and Brady 2005;Thompson 1959;Villagutierre y Soto-Mayor 1983;Vogt 1976;Vogt and Stuart 2005). For the early colonial period, Villagutierre y Soto-Mayor (1989: 101) reports that the Maya perceived caves as some of the most sacred landscapes.…”