Category Archives: Mayan

Indigenous Apostles: Maya Catholic Catechists Working the Word in Highland Chiapas. (Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations)

Indigenous Apostles tells the story of conversion to Catholicism and birth of new ecclesial community with the arrival of Vatican II mission in Santa Maria Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in Mexico’s Maya highlands. In the state of Chiapas, the nation’s … Continue reading

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How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize (At Table)

In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long ?working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. … Continue reading

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Death and the Classic Maya Kings (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation … Continue reading

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The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012

December 21, 2012. The Internet, bookshelves, and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it. Whether the end … Continue reading

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Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

Between AD 900-1600, the native people of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of … Continue reading

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New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural … Continue reading

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Ritual and Power in Stone: The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art

The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in … Continue reading

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Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico’s southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scholars … Continue reading

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Monumental Ambivalence: The Politics of Heritage (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

From ancient Maya cities in Mexico and Central America to the Taj Mahal in India, cultural heritage sites around the world are being drawn into the wave of privatization that has already swept through such economic sectors as telecommunications, transportation, … Continue reading

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Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost

Since the mid-1980s, when Guatemala returned to civilian rule and achieved relative peace and stability, the Maya have begun openly expressing their spiritual beliefs and practices. Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq’ijab’ (keepers of the ritual calendar), … Continue reading

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