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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

  • ¿QUIÉNES SE LLEVARON NUESTRO SAGRADO MAÍZ?
    ¿QUIÉNES SE LLEVARON NUESTRO SAGRADO MAÍZ?
    SAQILK'U'X AJPWAQ
    Narran situaciones cotidianas las cuales nos dejan enseñanzas que podemos llevar a la práctica. ...
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    Q. 45

  • MITOS Y LITERATURA MAYA
    MITOS Y LITERATURA MAYA
    JOSE ALCINA FRANCH
    Mientras que el desarrollo sociopolítico de los pueblos del centro de México alcanzó su clímax en la última parte del período postclásico (900-1500), la civilización maya tuvo su máximo esplendor en la etapa clásica (200-900 d.C.). A lo largo de estos siglos las ciudades-estado desarrollaron una inusitada actividad crea-dora que se plasmó en múltiples órdenes: arquitectura, rel...
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    Q. 135

  • 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

  • LA POBREZA DEL DESARROLLO Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA POBREZA -50%
    LA POBREZA DEL DESARROLLO Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA POBREZA
    RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ, ANTONIO
    "Fue un sábado de agosto en la década de los 80, a eso de las cinco de la mañana, cuando el Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres -EGP- creó una emboscada al ejército de Guatemala, específicamente al destacamento militar instalado en aquel entonces en el antiguo cementerio del barrio Batz Carvaro, en el Municipio de San Juan Cotzal, Departamento del Quiché. Dos horas fue el tiempo...
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    Q. 90Q. 45

  • TRES SIGNOS
    TRES SIGNOS
    QUESADA GARCIA, OCTAVIO
    Hasta donde hoy se ha podido establecer, las distintas formas de la cultura mesoamericana desarrollaron y dejaron plasmada en su obra plástica, diversas maneras de escritura a fin de comunicar visualmente sus ideas. En particular, construyeron un vasto universo de imágenes para transmitir, específicamente, su pensamiento metafísico y su propia visión del cosmos. Dicho universo ...
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    Q. 190

  • 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

  • MESOAMÉRICA
    MESOAMÉRICA
    UNIVERSIDAD MESOAMERICANA
    A scholarly, quality stock volume on aspects of Mesoamerican culture and history. Consists of eleven articles, chronology and bibliography, including themes of languages, political history, Mayan political life, urban centers, religion, art and science. ...
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    Q. 555

  • POPOL VUH
    POPOL VUH
    ANONIMO
    El Popol Vuh es un relato épico basado en las leyendas de la extraordinaria civilización maya-quiché, que habla sobre la creación del mundo. Nos relata las aventuras de 2 hermanos, que después de su muerte, ascienden a tomar el lugar de la luna y el sol. ...
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  • 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

  • LA JOYANCA
    LA JOYANCA
    VARIOS AUTORES / MARIE-CHARLOTTE ARNAULD / VÉRONIQUE BREUIL-MARTÍNEZ / ERICK PONCIANO ALVARADO
    An outstanding, quality stock study of a noted Mayan archeological site of Guatemala. ...
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    Q. 290

  • LA PARTICIPACIÓN Y REPRESENTACIÓN POLÍTICA DE LOS PUEBLOS MAYAS DE GUATEMALA -50%
    LA PARTICIPACIÓN Y REPRESENTACIÓN POLÍTICA DE LOS PUEBLOS MAYAS DE GUATEMALA
    SIMILOX SALAZAR, VITALINO
    Extracto de la Tesis Doctoral realizado bajo la dirección del Profesor Dr. D Juan Gonzáles-Anleo Grande de Castilla, y defendida en la facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología "León XII", de la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, el día 8 de novimebre de 2004, obteiendo la máxima calificación (Summa Cum Laude Probatus), ante el tribunal. ...
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    Q. 100Q. 50

  • 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

  • PRIMERO DIOS ETNOGRAFIA Y CAMBIO SOCIAL -50%
    PRIMERO DIOS ETNOGRAFIA Y CAMBIO SOCIAL
    METZ, BRENT / LOPEZ GARCIA, JULIAN
    An anthropological study of the Mayan Chorti indigenous group of eastern Guatemala, with focus on daily life, subsistence economy, life cycle, family structure and relationships, political organization and spiritual beliefs. ...
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    Q. 80Q. 40

  • EL POPOL VUH
    EL POPOL VUH
    LUIS CARDOZA Y ARAGON
    El Popol Vuh es sin lugar a dudas el más importante de los textos mayas que se conservan. Se distingue no sólo por su extraordinario contenido histórico y mitológico, sino por sus cualidades literarias, las que permiten que se le pueda colocar a la altura de grandes obras épicas como el Ramayana hindú o la Ilíada y la Odisea griegas. Como éstas, el Popol Vuh no es un simple reg...
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  • ART AND SOCIETY IN A HIGHLAND MAYA COMMUNITY
    ART AND SOCIETY IN A HIGHLAND MAYA COMMUNITY
    ALLEN J.CHRISTENSON
    This book is a study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. The Altarpiece in the Context of Tz'utujil History3. The Sixteenth-Century Church and Its Altarpieces4. The Central Altarpiece and Tz'utujil Cosmology5. Iconic Motifs of the Central Altarpiece6. Basal Narrative Panels of the Central Altarpiece7. ConclusionB...
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    Q. 285

  • RENEWING THE MAYA WORLD
    RENEWING THE MAYA WORLD
    GARRETT W. COOK
    Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints...
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    Q. 340

  • WOMEN & ALCOHOL IN A HIGHLAND MAYA
    WOMEN & ALCOHOL IN A HIGHLAND MAYA
    EBER, CHRISTINE
    Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community.In this ...
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    Q. 540

  • THE LIFE OF OUR LANGUAGE
    THE LIFE OF OUR LANGUAGE
    SUSAN GARZON / R. MCKENNA BROWN / JULIA BECKER RICHARDS
    The native Maya peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize have been remarkably successful in maintaining their cultural identity during centuries of contact with and domination by outside groups. Yet change is occurring in all Mayan communities as contact with Spanish-speaking Ladino society increases. This book explores change and continuity in one of the most vital a...
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    Q. 290

  • LA CIVILIZACIÓN DE LOS ANTIGUOS MAYAS
    LA CIVILIZACIÓN DE LOS ANTIGUOS MAYAS
    RUZ LHUILLIER, ALBERTO
    Reunión de cuatro conferencias dictadas por el autor, en distintas universidades entre 1954 y 1955. Presenta en líneas muy generales, con el rigor del historiador y la pasión del amante de nuestras civilizaciones precolombinas, una visión integradora del pueblo maya desde sus orígenes, que rescata la esencia de una tradición cultural viva en el México de hoy. ...
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    Q. 75

  • HOW THE MAYA BUILT THEIR WORLD
    HOW THE MAYA BUILT THEIR WORLD
    ELLIOT M. ABRAMS
    Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials...
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    Q. 230

  • THE HISTORY OF TENSE/ASPECT/MOOD/VOICE IN THE MAYAN VERBAL COMPLEX
    THE HISTORY OF TENSE/ASPECT/MOOD/VOICE IN THE MAYAN VERBAL COMPLEX
    JOHN ROBERTS
    Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay public as archaeology and glyphic decipherment reveal more of its secrets. In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred in the core of Mayan grammar from the earl...
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    Q. 290

  • MAYA SAINTS & SOULS IN A CHANGING WORLD
    MAYA SAINTS & SOULS IN A CHANGING WORLD
    JOHN M. WATANABE
    The Maya of Santiago Chimaltenango have experienced increasingly rapid, even violent, integration into Guatemalan society in the last fifty years, yet they still distinguish themselves ethnically from Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and other Maya. Why this sense of ethnic identity persists—and also changes—over time is the focus of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World, a bea...
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    Q. 490

  • THE SOUTHEAST MAYA PERIPHERY
    THE SOUTHEAST MAYA PERIPHERY
    VARIOS AUTORES / PATRICIA A. URBAN / EDWARD M. SCHORTMAN
    Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing zones that are clearly Mayan in language and culture, especially during t...
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  • LOS SEÑORES DE DOS PILAS
    LOS SEÑORES DE DOS PILAS
    MARIA ELENA VEGA
    nvestigación histórica y arqueológica sobre esta región precolombina maya situada en el norte de Guatemala. ...
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    Q. 380

  • LA FAMILIA MAS PROSPERA
    LA FAMILIA MAS PROSPERA
    SAQILK'U'X AJPWAQ
    No hay secretos para el éxito. Este se alcanza preparándose y trabajando arduamente.Alcanza tus sueños convirtiendo cada paso en una meta y cada meta en un paso. ...
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    Q. 45

  • UN MAYA MIGRANTE
    UN MAYA MIGRANTE
    GONZALEZ, GASPAR PEDRO
    Trata de los fenómenos de las migraciones en el mundo; especialmente en Guatemala, en donde viene a ser un grave problema para los pueblos indígenas, particularmente los mayas que afrontan una serie de vicisitudes para lograr esos sueños que se vuelven más bien pesadillas para ellos.La migración es la puerta de ingreso hacia la desintegración familiar, anulación de las identida...
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    Q. 175