The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo

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Publisher : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Book Synopsis The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo by : Alfonso Villa Rojas

Download or read book The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo written by Alfonso Villa Rojas and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1945 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816523948
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)

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Book Synopsis Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico by : Eugene Newton Anderson

Download or read book Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico written by Eugene Newton Anderson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In MexicoÕs southeastern frontier state of Quintana Roo, game animals and other creatures that depend on old-growth forest are disappearing in the face of habitat destruction and overhunting. Traditionally, the Yucatec Maya have regarded animals as fellow members of a wider society, and in their religion animals enjoy the status of spiritual beings. But in recent years, the breakdown of cultural restraints on hunting has spiraled so far out of control that almost everything edible within easy reach of a road has become fair game. This book combines the insights of an anthropologist with the hands-on experience of a Maya campesino with the aim of improving the management of Quintana RooÕs wild lands and animal resources. E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc pool their knowledge to document Yucatec Maya understanding and use of animals and to address practical matters related to wider conservation issues. Although the Yucatec MayaÕs ethnobotany has been well documented, until now little has been recorded about their animal lore. Anderson and Medina Tzuc have compiled a wealth of information about traditional knowledge of animals in this corner of the Maya world. They have recorded most of the terms widely used for several hundred categories of animals in west central Quintana Roo, mapped them onto biological categories, and recorded basic information about wildlife management and uses. The book reflects a wealth of knowledge gathered from individuals regarded as experts on particular aspects of animal management, whether hunting, herding, or beekeeping. It also offers case studies of conservation successes and failures in various communities, pointing to the need for cooperation by the Mexican government and Maya people to save wildlife. Appendixes provide an extensive animal classification and a complete list of all birds identified in the area. Even though sustainable forestry has finally come to the Yucat‡n, sustainable game use is practiced by only a few communities.Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico is a complete ethnozoology for the region, offered in the hope that it will encourage the recognition of Quintana RooÕs forests and wildlife as no less deserving of protection than ancient Maya cities.

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
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The Ancient Maya of Mexico

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543599
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ancient Maya of Mexico by : Geoffrey E Braswell

Download or read book The Ancient Maya of Mexico written by Geoffrey E Braswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.

The Maya of the Cochuah Region

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348645
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Maya of the Cochuah Region by : Justine M. Shaw

Download or read book The Maya of the Cochuah Region written by Justine M. Shaw and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.

A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108017045
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Book Synopsis A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America by : Anne Cary Maudslay

Download or read book A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America written by Anne Cary Maudslay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of archaeologist Alfred Maudslay's last expedition to Guatemala, with descriptions of his previously excavated sites.

Moral Ecology of a Forest

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534624
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Book Synopsis Moral Ecology of a Forest by : José E. Martínez-Reyes

Download or read book Moral Ecology of a Forest written by José E. Martínez-Reyes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract speculators. In the name of conservation, such speculators attempt to undermine local land control in these desirable areas. Moral Ecology of a Forest provides an ethnographic account of conservation politics, particularly the conflict between Western conservation and Mayan ontological ecology. The difficult interactions of the Maya of central Quintana Roo, Mexico, for example, or the Mayan communities of the Sain Ka’an Biosphere, demonstrate the clashing interests with Western biodiversity conservation initiatives. The conflicts within the forest of Quintana Roo represent the outcome of nature in this global era, where the forces of land grabbing, conservation promotion and organizations, and capitalism vie for control of forests and land. Forests pose living questions. In addition to the ever-thrilling biology of interdependent species, forests raise questions in the sphere of political economy, and thus raise cultural and moral questions. The economic aspects focus on the power dynamics and ideological perspectives over who controls, uses, exploits, or preserves those life forms and landscapes. The cultural and moral issues focus on the symbolic meanings, forms of knowledge, and obligations that people of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and classes have constructed in relation to their lands. The Maya Forest of Quintana Roo is a historically disputed place in which these three questions come together.

The Lowland Maya Postclassic

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477302581
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lowland Maya Postclassic by : Arlen F. Chase

Download or read book The Lowland Maya Postclassic written by Arlen F. Chase and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

Coba

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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Coba by : William J. Folan

Download or read book Coba written by William J. Folan and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1983-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coba: A Classic Maya Metropolis investigates the ancient Maya and their ways both at Coba and in the rest of southern Mesoamerica. More specifically, it examines the composition, size, and organization of Coba and the manner in which the residents of this classic Maya metropolis extended themselves and their activities over the landscape. An interpretation of Maya class structure is also offered. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins with a background on the archaeological investigations of Coba as part of the Coba Archaeological Mapping Project. The debate over the urban status of Classic Maya settlements is considered, along with investigations of the hydrology, paleoclimatology, flora patterns, and soils of Coba. The importance of Coba in Maya history is then discussed, and the physical geography of the Yucatan Peninsula is described. Subsequent chapters focus on the various characteristics of Coba, including its urban organization and social structure; the composition of its residential compounds; neighborhoods and wards; and cottage industry and guild formation. A reconstruction of Coba's prehistoric population is also presented. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists.

The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149264
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas by : Robert M. Laughlin

Download or read book The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas written by Robert M. Laughlin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts. With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya culture, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas, the first collection to focus fully on the Ch’ol Maya, takes readers deep into ancient caves and reveals new dimensions of Ch’ol cosmology. In contemporary Ch’ol culture the contributors find a wealth of historical material that they then interweave with archaeological data to yield surprising and illuminating insights. The colonial and twentieth-century descendants of the Postclassic period Ch’ol and Lacandon Ch’ol, for instance, provide a window on the history and conquest of the early Maya. Several authors examine Early Classic paintings in the Ch’ol ritual cave known as Jolja that document ancient cave ceremonies not unlike Ch’ol rituals performed today, such as petitioning a cave-dwelling mountain spirit for health, rain, and abundant harvests. Other essays investigate deities identified with caves, mountains, lightning, and meteors to trace the continuity of ancient Maya beliefs through the centuries, in particular the ancient origin of contemporary rituals centering on the Ch’ol mountain deity Don Juan. An appendix containing three Ch’ol folktales and their English translations rounds out the volume. Charting paths literal and figurative to earlier trade routes, pre-Columbian sites, and ancient rituals and beliefs, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas opens a fresh, richly informed perspective on Maya culture as it has evolved and endured over the ages.

Maya E Groups

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813052815
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Maya E Groups by : David A. Freidel

Download or read book Maya E Groups written by David A. Freidel and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult. “E Groups,” central to many of these settlements, are architectural complexes: typically, a long platform supporting three struc¬tures and facing a western pyramid across a formal plaza. Aligned with the movements of the sun, E Groups have long been interpreted as giant calendrical devices crucial to the rise of Maya civilization. This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were a key element of community organization, urbanism, and identity in the heart of the Maya lowlands. They served as gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual; they were the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites—including some of the most famous like the Mundo Perdido in Tikal and the hitherto little known complex at Chan, as well as others in Ceibal, El Palmar, Cival, Calakmul, Caracol, Xunantunich, Yaxnohcah, Yaxuná, and San Bartolo—this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in ancient Maya civilization. James Aimers | Anthony F. Aveni | Jamie J. Awe | Boris Beltran | M. Kathryn Brown | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Anne S. Dowd | James Doyle | Francisco Estrada-Belli | David A. Freidel | Julie A. Hoggarth | Takeshi Inomata | Patricia A. Mcanany | Susan Milbrath | Jerry Murdock | Kathryn Reese-Taylor | Prudence M. Rice | Cynthia Robin | Franco D. Rossi | Jeremy A. Sabloff | William A. Saturno | Travis W. Stanton A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Maya Society under Colonial Rule

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235406
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Maya Society under Colonial Rule by : Nancy Marguerite Farriss

Download or read book Maya Society under Colonial Rule written by Nancy Marguerite Farriss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the historian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and culture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of subsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm of the sacred. She shows how the Maya adapted to Spanish domination, changing in ways that embodied Maya principles as they applied their traditional collective strategies for survival to the new challenges; they fared better under colonial rule than the Aztecs or Incas, who lived in areas more economically attractive to the conquering Spaniards. The author draws on archives and private collections in Seville, Mexico City, and Yucatan; on linguistic evidence from native language documents; and on archaeological and ethnographic data from sources that include her own fieldwork. Her innovative book illuminates not only Maya history and culture but also the nature and functioning of premodern agrarian societies in general and their processes of sociocultural change, especially under colonial rule.

Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111676
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas by : Nicholas A. Robins

Download or read book Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas written by Nicholas A. Robins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780--82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903. Nicholas A. Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movements that were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; they sought to restore native rule and traditions to their societies; and they were movements born of despair and oppression that were sustained by the belief that they would witness the dawning of a new age. His work underscores the link that may be found, but is not inherent, between genocide, millennialism, and revitalization movements in Latin America during the colonial and early national periods.

The Lowland Maya Postclassic

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477302603
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lowland Maya Postclassic by : Arlen F. Chase

Download or read book The Lowland Maya Postclassic written by Arlen F. Chase and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

The Caste War of Yucatán

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740012
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Caste War of Yucatán by : Nelson A. Reed

Download or read book The Caste War of Yucatán written by Nelson A. Reed and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today. This revised edition is based on further research in the archives and in the field, and draws on the research by a new generation of scholars who have labored since the book's original publication 36 years ago. One of the most significant results of this research is that it has put a human face on much that had heretofore been treated as semi-mythical. Reviews of the First Edition "Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatán in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." --American Historical Review "In this beautifully written history of a little-known struggle between several contending forces in Yucatán, Reed has added an important dimension to anthropological studies in this area." --American Anthropologist "Not only is this exciting history (as compelling and dramatic as the best of historical fiction) but it covers events unaccountably neglected by historians. . . . This is a brilliant contribution to history. . . . Don't miss this book." --Los Angeles Times "One of the most remarkable books about Latin America to appear in years." --Hispanic American Report

Maya Medicine

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826328652
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Maya Medicine by : Marianna Appel Kunow

Download or read book Maya Medicine written by Marianna Appel Kunow and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original publication and copyright date: 2003.

Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594606X
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology by : Charles Golden

Download or read book Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology written by Charles Golden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.