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  • THE COMITÁN VALLEY
    THE COMITÁN VALLEY
    CAITLIN C. EARLEY
    "The Comitán Valley sits in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico, but a thousand years ago it was the western fringe of the Maya empire. The art in Comitán looks different from the art found in the nearest Maya capitals like Palenque and Yaxchilan, but also incorporates essential Maya techniques and ideas. For many years, those who bothered to study the art of Comitán, part...
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  • UNSEEN ART
    UNSEEN ART
    CLAUDIA BRITTENHAM
    In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well as Mesoamerican understandings of sight as...
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  • VITAL VOIDS
    VITAL VOIDS
    ANDREW FINEGOLD
    The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god’s body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole.Art historian Andrew Finegold explores the meanings at...
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  • HER CUP FOR SWEET CACAO
    HER CUP FOR SWEET CACAO
    TRACI ARDREN
    For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complex society. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses of food in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches to examine the meaning of food beyond diet—ritual offerings and restrictions, medicinal preparations, and the role of nostalgia around food, among...
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  • THE ADORNED BODY
    THE ADORNED BODY
    NICHOLAS CARTER / STEPHEN HOUSTON / FRANCO ROSSI
    How we dress our bodies—through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more—is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body, Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, and Franco Rossi bring together contributions...
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  • MAYA BONESETTERS
    MAYA BONESETTERS
    SERVANDO Z. HINOJOSA
    u003cpu003eScholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. u003ciu003eMaya Bonesettersu003c/iu003e is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala...
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    Q. 500

  • THE BEAST BETWEEN
    THE BEAST BETWEEN
    MATTHEW LOOPER
    The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also func...
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  • THE TEABO MANUSCRIPT
    THE TEABO MANUSCRIPT
    MARK Z. CHRISTENSEN
    Winner, LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, 2017Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now The Teabo Manuscript introduces...
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    Q. 890

  • MIDWIVES AND MOTHERS
    MIDWIVES AND MOTHERS
    SHEILA COSMINSKY
    Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status. ...
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    Q. 460

  • THE MEMORY OF BONES: BODY, BEING, AND EXPERIENCE AMONG THE CLASSIC MAYA
    THE MEMORY OF BONES: BODY, BEING, AND EXPERIENCE AMONG THE CLASSIC MAYA
    STEPHEN D. HOUSTON / DAVID STUART / KARL TAUBE
    All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array o...
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    Q. 510

  • THE BURDEN OF THE ANCIENTS
    THE BURDEN OF THE ANCIENTS
    ALLEN J.CHRISTENSON
    Drawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal. ...
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    Q. 490

  • MORTUARY LANDSCAPES OF THE CLASSIC MAYA
    MORTUARY LANDSCAPES OF THE CLASSIC MAYA
    ANDREW K. SCHERER
    From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic period (AD 250–900), integrating informati...
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    Q. 1.050

  • SONGS THAT MAKE THE ROAD DANCE
    SONGS THAT MAKE THE ROAD DANCE
    LINDA O'BRIEN-ROTHE
    An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz’utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the “Songs of the Old Ones” are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O’Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest,...
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    Q. 410

  • GUATEMALA-U.S. MIGRATION
    GUATEMALA-U.S. MIGRATION
    SUSANNE JONAS / NESTOR RODRIGUEZ
    This comprehensive study of five phases of Guatemalan migration—both Maya and ladino—to the United States from the late 1970s to the present illuminates the transregional experiences of those who pass through Mexico. ...
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    Q. 410

  • MAYA FIGURINES
    MAYA FIGURINES
    CHRISTINA T. HALPERIN
    Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these often neglected objects and uses them to draw out relationships between the May...
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  • MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY
    MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY
    NORMAN HAMMOND / GORDON R. WILLEY
    Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization.The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections...
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    Q. 450

  • THE WAR FOR THE HEART AND SOUL OF A HIGHLAND MAYA TOWN
    THE WAR FOR THE HEART AND SOUL OF A HIGHLAND MAYA TOWN
    ROBERT S. CARLSEN
    This classic study of cultural continuity and change in an indigenous Guatemalan community is now updated to reveal how the forces of globalization are shredding the very fabric of communal and religious life. ...
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    Q. 410

  • A GRAMMAR OF MAM, A MAYAN LANGUAGE
    A GRAMMAR OF MAM, A MAYAN LANGUAGE
    NORA C. ENGLAND
    The first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico. ...
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    Q. 395

  • VEILED BRIGHTNESS
    VEILED BRIGHTNESS
    STEPHEN HOUSTON ET AL
    Color is an integral part of human experience, so common as to be overlooked or treated as unimportant. Yet color is both unavoidable and varied. Each culture classifies, understands, and uses it in different and often surprising ways, posing particular challenges to those who study color from long-ago times and places far distant. Veiled Brightness reconstructs what color mean...
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    Q. 980

  • DEATH AND THE CLASSIC MAYA KINGS
    DEATH AND THE CLASSIC MAYA KINGS
    JAMES L. FITZSIMMONS
    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 of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record M...
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  • TO BE LIKE GODS
    TO BE LIKE GODS
    MATTHEW LOOPER
    The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift excha...
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  • MAYA CALENDAR ORIGINS
    MAYA CALENDAR ORIGINS
    PRUDENCE M.RICE
    In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars use...
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    Q. 470

  • JUNGLE OF THE MAYA
    JUNGLE OF THE MAYA
    DOUGLAS GOODELL / JERRY BARRACK / JIM WRIGHT
    The Selva Maya (Jungle of the Maya) is one of the world's most magical yet least appreciated places—an enormous tropical forest that encompasses much of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. At 9,000,000 acres, it is the largest contiguous tropical forest north of the Amazon in the Western Hemisphere. Within its borders, the Selva Maya provides habitat for an aston...
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    Q. 410

  • THE MAYA TROPICAL FOREST
    THE MAYA TROPICAL FOREST
    JAMES D. NATIONS
    The Maya Tropical Forest, which occupies the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, is the closest rainforest to the United States and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Western Hemisphere. It has been home to the Maya peoples for nearly four millennia, starting around 1800 BC. Ancient cities in the rainforest such as Palenque, Yaxchilan, Tikal, an...
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    Q. 410

  • WATER AND RITUAL
    WATER AND RITUAL
    LISA J. LUCERO
    In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during...
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    Q. 290

  • MAYA INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE
    MAYA INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE
    MONTEJO, VICTOR
    When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of the cultural, political, economic, and religious revitalization that occurred i...
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    Q. 340

  • MAYAN VOICES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    MAYAN VOICES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    CHRISTINE KOVIC
    In the last decades of the twentieth century, thousands of Mayas were expelled, often violently, from their homes in San Juan Chamula and other highland communities in Chiapas, Mexico, by fellow Mayas allied with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). State and federal authorities generally turned a blind eye to these human rights abuses, downplaying them as local ...
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    Q. 330

  • MAYAS IN THE MARKETPLACE
    MAYAS IN THE MARKETPLACE
    WALTER E. LITTLE
    2005 — Best Book Award – New England Council of Latin American StudiesSelling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango. Lik...
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    Q. 375

  • ANCIENT MAYA COMMONERS
    ANCIENT MAYA COMMONERS
    JON C. LOHSE / FRED VALDEZ
    Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and status. But what do we know of the common folk who labored to build the temple complexes and palaces and grew the food that fed all...
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    Q. 340

  • MAYA PALACES AND ELITE RESIDENCES
    MAYA PALACES AND ELITE RESIDENCES
    VARIOS AUTORES / JESSICA JOYCE CHRISTIE
    This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. ...
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    Q. 395