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Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: John P. Hawkins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-15 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán in mountainous western Guatemala, destroying many homes. The experience trau
Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: John P. Hawkins
Categories: Mayas
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social an
Mayan Tales from Chiapas, Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Robert M. Laughlin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: UNM Press

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The forty-two stories presented in this book were told to Robert Laughlin in Tzotzil by Francisca Hernández Hernández, an elderly woman known as Doña Pancha,
Time and the Highland Maya
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Barbara Tedlock
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiché Indians of highland Guatemala h
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Kaylee R. Spencer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-01 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interac