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Time Among the Maya

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137289
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Time Among the Maya written by Ronald Wright and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).

Tecpan Guatemala

Author : Edward F Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429976550
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Tecpan Guatemala written by Edward F Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands. It seeks to build on the traditional strengths of ethnography while rejecting overly romantic and isolationist tendencies in the genre.

Maya Textiles of Guatemala

Author : Margot Blum Schevill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Textiles of Guatemala written by Margot Blum Schevill and published by . This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative and beautifully illustrated.... It is both a detailed anthropological study, which delves into aspects of Mayan culture and examines historical and sociological forces brought to bear on Mayan communities of Guatemala, and a catalog of the stunning collections, containing descriptions of techniques, dying processes, and textile production. -- Booklist

Maya Resurgence in Guatemala

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131955
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Maya Resurgence in Guatemala written by Richard Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Guatemala, Mayan peoples are struggling to recover from decades of cataclysmic upheaval--religious conversions, civil war, displacement, military repression. Richard Wilson carried out long-term research with Q’eqchi’-speaking Mayas in the province of Alta Verapaz to ascertain how these events affected social organization and identity. He finds that their rituals of fertility and healing--abandoned in the 1970s during Catholic and Protestant evangelizations--have been reinvented by an ethnic revivalist movement led by Catholic lay activists, who seek to renovate the earth cult in order to create a new pan-Q’eqchi’ ethnic identity.

Health Care in Maya Guatemala

Author : John Palmer Hawkins
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138596
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in Maya Guatemala written by John Palmer Hawkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.

Invading Guatemala

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271027584
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Invading Guatemala written by Matthew Restall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts

Indigenous Movements and Their Critics

Author : Kay B. Warren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225303
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Movements and Their Critics written by Kay B. Warren and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics. The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class.

Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity

Author : Brigittine M. French
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816527679
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity written by Brigittine M. French and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged context of contemporary Guatemala. Beginning with an examination of the Ònationalist projectÓ that has been ongoing since the end of the colonial period, French interrogates the ÒGuatemalan/indigenous binary.Ó In Guatemala, ÒLadinoÓ refers to the Spanish-speaking minority of the population, who are of mixed European, usually Spanish, and indigenous ancestry; ÒIndianÓ is understood to mean the majority of GuatemalaÕs population, who speak one of the twenty-one languages in the Maya linguistic groups of the country, although levels of bilingualism are very high among most Maya communities. As French shows, the Guatemalan state has actively promoted a racialized, essentialized notion of ÒIndiansÓ as an undifferentiated, inherently inferior group that has stood stubbornly in the way of national progress, unity, and developmentÑwhich are, implicitly, the goals of Òtrue GuatemalansÓ (that is, Ladinos). French shows, with useful examples, how constructions of language and collective identity are in fact strategies undertaken to serve the goals of institutions (including the government, the military, the educational system, and the church) and social actors (including linguists, scholars, and activists). But by incorporating in-depth fieldwork with groups that speak Kaqchikel and KÕicheÕ along with analyses of Spanish-language discourses, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity also shows how some individuals in urban, bilingual Indian communities have disrupted the essentializing projects of multiculturalism. And by focusing on ideologies of language, the author is able to explicitly link linguistic forms and functions with larger issues of consciousness, gender politics, social positions, and the forging of hegemonic power relations.

The Popol Vuh

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Popol Vuh written by Lewis Spence and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests

Author : Krystyna Deuss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests written by Krystyna Deuss and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlivened with 102 photographs and 50 figures and maps, Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests explores the "old ways" that still prevail in the Q'anjob'al, Akatek, and Chuj communities of the remote northwestern Cuchumatán Mountains. Krystyna Deuss provides vivid descriptions and images of the traditional rites and rituals she witnessed during fifteen years of fieldwork. These sacred moments include blood sacrifices for the good of the community and private shamanic rituals--as well as black magic. Deuss also includes a selection of the prayers she recorded.

The Maya of Guatemala

Author : Phillip Wearne
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 1897693559
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Maya of Guatemala written by Phillip Wearne and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAYA: A PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE ‘As I go around the world, people seem surprised that we indigenous people of Central America still exist’, noted the Maya Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú in 1992. More than 500 years after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Maya, descendants of one of the greatest pre-Columbian civilizations, not only exist but are thriving. The survival of 21 different Maya speaking peoples in Guatemala is a living testimony to their powers of resistance. In recent years, the brutal conquest of their cities and mountain lands by Spanish conquistadores in the early sixteenth century, has been replayed in all its horrors. In the 1980s alone, the Guatemalan army is conservatively estimated to have murdered 20,000 Maya. Whole villages were wiped out, as at least 120,000 fled into Mexico and 500,000 became internal refugees. The MAYA OF GUATEMALA studies the Maya world in depth: the history, culture, beliefs and responses to the nonindigenous world. The author, Phillip Wearne, a journalist with long experience in Central America, looks at the Maya cultural resurgence of recent years – the product of both fearsome oppression and international geo-political changes of the 1980s. This is a story of indomitable will, a plea for solidarity and international support for a people who want to reclaim their identity as one of the ‘first peoples’ of the world. It is also a story of resistance and resurgence on behalf of the Maya who in the words of one internal refugee ‘want to come out of the mud, the cold, the shadows and into the sunshine’. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

The Maya Diaspora

Author : James Loucky
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439901229
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Maya Diaspora written by James Loucky and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Maya refugees found new lives in strange lands.

The Guatemalan Genocide of the Maya People

Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508177376
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Guatemalan Genocide of the Maya People written by John A. Torres and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya Empire became a thriving civilization between the third century and the seventh century CE, but by 900 CE war, drought, and disease wiped out most of its cities and the Mayan people were greatly reduced. Unfortunately, the greatest threat to their existence was yet to come, when the Guatemalan genocide would decimate those who remained in the 1970s and '80s. The facts of the Mayans' story will be intertwined with profiles of individuals and in-depth looks at related topics. Readers will learn how to help those faced with genocide and understand a history that could otherwise repeat itself.

The Maya of Guatemala

Author :
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 0946690693
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Maya of Guatemala written by and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch towers... barbed wire... heavily armed soldiers... enforced recruitment into civil patrols... re-education centres... Today tens of thousands of Maya indigenous peoples in Guatemala are prisoners in their own land. ‘Model villages’, more accurately described as concentration camps, are now the only homes for thousands of Mayas, forced from their traditional lands by the Guatemalan army. Yet in some ways those imprisoned in the 30-odd model villages are the lucky ones. They are the survivors of the ‘scientific killings’ conducted on a massive scale by the notoriously brutal Guatemalan military. During the early 1980s the indigenous death toll may have been as high as 20,000; a process which even a conservative Guatemalan daily paper described as ‘genocidal annihilation’. As a result over 180,000 Maya Indian refugees fled to Mexico and a further half a million became internal refugees in provincial towns or the capital. The Maya of Guatemala, MRG Report No 62, outlines the horrific situation facing the Guatemalan Maya. Written by Phillip Wearne, a journalist with long experience in the region, it describes in detail the culture, beliefs and history of the Maya, their response to the non-indigenous world and the effects of both the war and the present economic crisis. The report also contains an overview of the present situation of indigenous peoples in the other states of Central America by Professor Peter Calvert. A shocking account of a people who have survived centuries of repression, this report is a passionate plea for solidarity and action on behalf of the Maya who are today facing the greatest single threat to their continued existence since the coming of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

The Maya of Guatemala

Author : Phillip Wearne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Maya of Guatemala written by Phillip Wearne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAYA: A PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE ‘As I go around the world, people seem surprised that we indigenous people of Central America still exist’, noted the Maya Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú in 1992. More than 500 years after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Maya, descendants of one of the greatest pre-Columbian civilizations, not only exist but are thriving. The survival of 21 different Maya speaking peoples in Guatemala is a living testimony to their powers of resistance. In recent years, the brutal conquest of their cities and mountain lands by Spanish conquistadores in the early sixteenth century, has been replayed in all its horrors. In the 1980s alone, the Guatemalan army is conservatively estimated to have murdered 20,000 Maya. Whole villages were wiped out, as at least 120,000 fled into Mexico and 500,000 became internal refugees. The MAYA OF GUATEMALA studies the Maya world in depth: the history, culture, beliefs and responses to the nonindigenous world. The author, Phillip Wearne, a journalist with long experience in Central America, looks at the Maya cultural resurgence of recent years – the product of both fearsome oppression and international geo-political changes of the 1980s. This is a story of indomitable will, a plea for solidarity and international support for a people who want to reclaim their identity as one of the ‘first peoples’ of the world. It is also a story of resistance and resurgence on behalf of the Maya who in the words of one internal refugee ‘want to come out of the mud, the cold, the shadows and into the sunshine’. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

Ignacio

Author : Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213614
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Ignacio written by Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central America from the eyes of a peasant illuminates the complex problems of the region: social, personal, economic, medical, and religious as well as the political issues related to the great masses of Latin America's poor.

Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala

Author : John P. Hawkins
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362257
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala written by John P. Hawkins and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.