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"The Only True People" : Linking Maya Identities Past and Present /

"A timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity--how it developed, how it emerged and how it continues to change. Challenges the notion of ethnically homogenous "Maya peoples" for their re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: LeCount, Lisa J. (Lisa Jeanne), 1955- (Editor ), Beyyette, Bethany J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : on constructing a shared understanding of historical pasts and nearing futures / Bethany J. Beyyette
  • Reimaging the world : Maya religious practices and the construction of ethnicity in Mesoamerican frame / Mathew C. Samson
  • From ethnogenesis to ethnoexodus : Mayas, Dzulo'ob, and the politics of identity in Yucatán / Juan Castillo Cocom, Timoteo Rodriguez, and McCale Ashenbrener
  • Itzaj and Mopan identities in Peten, Guatemala / Charles Andrew Hofling
  • Maya ethnogenesis and group identity in Yucatan, 1500-1900 / Matthew Restall and Wolfgang Gabbert
  • Differentiation among Maya speakers : evidence from comparative linguistics and from hieroglyphic texts / Martha J. Macri
  • Right place, right time : preconditions for ethnogenesis among the classic Maya of the Upper Belize River Valley / Lisa J. LeCount
  • He's Maya, but he's not my brother : exploring the place of ethnicity in classic Maya social organization / Damien B. Marken, Stanley P. Guenter, and David A. Freidel
  • Considering the edge effect : ethnogenesis and classic period society in the southeastern Maya area / Marcello A. Canuto and Ellen E. Bell
  • Copan, Honduras, a multi-ethnic melting pot during the late classic? / Rebecca Storey
  • Conclusion / Ed Schortman.