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The Ch'orti' Maya Area

Author : Brent E. Metz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ch'orti' Maya Area written by Brent E. Metz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An essential addition to the bookshelves of Mayanists and anyone interested in long-term processes of culture change."--Edward Schortman, Kenyon College "Spans time, space, and disciplines to present well-rounded and actively contested views of the southeastern Guatemala and the northern frontier areas of Honduras and El Salvador. The diversity of the authors and their themes brings something for every reader, including the Ch'orti'."--Judith M. Maxwell, Tulane University The Ch'orti' area--located in present-day Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador--was once the southernmost region of the ancient Maya world. Though thousands of years of tumultuous change have altered the face of the region drastically, many Ch'orti' have preserved their identity and maintained strong cultural ties to their past, and the region generally continues to practice traditions with Ch'orti' roots. The Ch'orti's' connection with the Maya past and modern-day struggles with poverty and cultural encroachment have made the once little-studied Ch'orti' an important subject of anthropological research. The Ch'orti' Maya Area presents a holistic, multidisciplinary and long-term look at these people, their culture, and the region itself. Highlighting research from leading scholars around the globe, this collection is an impressive exploration of the history of human habitation in the area from approximately 3,000 years ago to the present.

Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Author : Brent E. Metz
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082633881X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala written by Brent E. Metz and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.

The Chorti Indians of Guatemala. [Illustr.]

Author : Charles Wisdom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Chorti Indians of Guatemala. [Illustr.] written by Charles Wisdom and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chorti (Mayan) Texts

Author : John G. Fought
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Chorti (Mayan) Texts written by John G. Fought and published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection. This book was released on 1972 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legends and folktales, religious and medical texts, agricultural and domestic customs translated and presented in this volume are crucial not only to an understanding of Mayan culture as it exists today but stand as our only clue eventually to deciphering the inscription of the ancient Mayans.

Maya History and Religion

Author : John Eric Sidney Thompson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122472
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Maya History and Religion written by John Eric Sidney Thompson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a distinguished Maya scholar seeks to correlate data from colonial writings and observations of the modern Indian with archaeological information in order to extend and clarify the panorama of Maya culture.

The Lowland Maya Area

Author : Scott Fedick
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560229711
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Lowland Maya Area written by Scott Fedick and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from the people of the Maya Lowlands? Integrating history, biodiversity, ethnobotany, geology, ecology, archaeology, anthropology, and other disciplines, The Lowland Maya Area is a valuable guide to the fascinating relationship between man and his environment in the Yucatán peninsula. This book covers virtually every aspect of the biology and ecology of the Maya Lowlands and the many ways that human beings have interacted with their surroundings in that area for the last three thousand years. You'll learn about newly discovered archaeological evidence of wetland use; the domestication and use of cacao and henequen plants; a biodiversity assessment of a select group of plants, animals, and microorganisms; the area's forgotten cotton, indigo, and wax industries; the ecological history of the Yucatán Peninsula; and much more. This comprehensive book will open your eyes to all that we can learn from the Maya people, who continue to live on their native lands, integrating modern life with their old ways and teaching valuable lessons about human dependence on and management of environmental resources. The Lowland Maya Area explores: the impact of hurricanes and fire on local environments historic and modern Maya concepts of forests the geologic history of the Yucatán challenges to preserving Maya architecture newly-discovered evidence of fertilizer use among the ancient Maya cooperation between locals and researchers that fosters greater knowledge on both sides recommendations to help safeguard the future The Lowland Maya Area is an ideal single source for reliable information on the many ecological and social issues of this dynamic area. Providing you with the results of the most recent research into many diverse fields, including traditional ecological knowledge, the difficult transition to capitalism, agave production, and the diversity of insect species, this book will be a valuable addition to your collection. As the editors of The Lowland Maya Area say in their concluding chapter: “If we are to gain global perspective from the changing Maya world, it is that understanding space and time is absolutely critical to human persistence.” Understanding how the Maya have interacted with their environment for thousands of years while maintaining biodiversity will help us understand how we too can work for sustainable development in our own environments.

Report on the Chorti-Maya Indians of Guatemela

Author : Harold Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Report on the Chorti-Maya Indians of Guatemela written by Harold Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maya Archaeologist

Author : John Eric Sidney Thompson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806112060
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Maya Archaeologist written by John Eric Sidney Thompson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autobiographical account of the early days of modern Maya archaeology by the most influential Mayanist of the middle decades of the 20th century. A foreword by Norman Hammond highlights Thompson's immense contribution to Maya studies, but also points out

The Southeast Classic Maya Zone

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021704
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Southeast Classic Maya Zone written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report on the Chorti-Maya Indians of Guatemala

Author : Harold Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Report on the Chorti-Maya Indians of Guatemala written by Harold Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chorti Mayan texts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Chorti Mayan texts written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breath and Smoke

Author : Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360920
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Breath and Smoke written by Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breath and Smoke explores the uses of tobacco among the Maya of Central America, revealing tobacco as a key topic in pre-Columbian art, iconography, and hieroglyphics.

Chorti Mayan texts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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The Southeast Maya Periphery

Author : Patricia A. Urban
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292762879
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Southeast Maya Periphery written by Patricia A. Urban and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Classic period, this area also includes zones that seem to be non-Mayan. The Southeast Maya Periphery examines both aspects of this territory. For the Maya, emphasis is on two sites: Quirigua, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras. For the non-Maya zone, information is presented on a variety of sites and subregions—the Lower Motagua Valley in Guatemala; the Naco, Sula, and Comayagua valleys and the site of Playa de los Muertos in Honduras; and the Zapotitan Valley and the sites of Cihuatan and Santa Leticia in El Salvador. Spanning over two thousand years of prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the essays in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement patterns, and ceramics and include basic information on chronology. Copan and Quirigua are treated both individually and in comparative perspective. This significant study was the first to attempt to deal with the Periphery as a coherent unit. Unique in its comparative presentation of Copan and Quirigua and in the breadth of information on non-Maya sites in the area, The Southeast Maya Periphery consists largely of previously unpublished data. Offering a variety of approaches to both old and new problems, this volume attempts, among other things, to reassess the relationships between Copan and Quirigua and between Highland and Lowland ceramic traditions, to analyze ceramics by neutron activation, and to define the nature of the apparently non-Mayan cultures in the region. This book will be of major interest not only to Mayanists and Mesoamerican archaeologists but also to others interested in the processes of ethnic group boundary formation and maintenance.

Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya

Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522736
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years the Three Rivers region of Belize and Guatemala has been the site of some of the most intensive archaeological research in the Maya Lowlands, providing a wealth of regional data. This volume brings together articles reporting on findings and interpretations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project that range over a 10- to 12-year period and that shed new light on how ecology, economy, and political order developed in the ancient past.".

Early Earthquakes of the Americas

Author : Robert Louis Kovach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521824897
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Early Earthquakes of the Americas written by Robert Louis Kovach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is emerging interest amongst researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history. This discipline has become known as archeoseismology. Ancient earthquakes often leave their mark in the myths, legends, and literary accounts of ancient peoples, the stratigraphy of their historical sites, and the structural integrity of their constructions. Such information leads to a better understanding of the irregularities in the time-space patterns of earthquake and volcanic occurrences and whether they could have been a factor contributing to some of the enigmatic catastrophes in ancient times. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects those earthquakes have had with illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites. It is written at a level that will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of earth science, archaeology, and history.

Archeology and Volcanism in Central America

Author : Payson D. Sheets
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477300333
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Archeology and Volcanism in Central America written by Payson D. Sheets and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya. During the past 2,000 years, four volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Zapotitán Valley of southern El Salvador. One, the devastating eruption of Ilopango around A.D. 300, forced a major migration, pushing the Mayan people north to the Yucatán Peninsula. Although later eruptions did not have long-range implications for cultural change, one of the subsequent eruptions preserved the Cerén site—a Mesoamerican Pompeii where the bodies of the villagers, the palm-thatched roofs of their houses, the pots of food in their pantries, even the corn plants in their fields were preserved with remarkable fidelity. Throughout 1978, a multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, archeologists, geologists, biologists, and others sponsored by the University of Colorado's Protoclassic Project researched and excavated the results of volcanism in the Zapotitan Valley—a key Mesoamerican site that contemporary political strife has since rendered inaccessible. The result is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the impact of volcanic eruptions on early Mayan civilization. These investigations clearly demonstrate that the Maya inhabited this volcanically hazardous valley in order to reap the short-term benefits that the volcanic ash produced—fertile soil, fine clays, and obsidian deposits.