"The Only True People" : Linking Maya Identities Past and Present
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"The Only True People" : Linking Maya Identities Past and Present

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"The Only True People" : Linking Maya Identities Past and Present

About this book

In The Only True People, a multidisciplinary group of archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers evaluate views of Maya history and prehistory in order to more accurately characterize the unique nature of the people known as the Maya by exploring the construction of their identities in the past and the present. Each author evaluates what makes identifiable sociocultural units, or "ethnicities, " distinctive, investigating ethnicity at a number of Maya sites across different time periods: from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and from the Classic period to the modern day. The volume challenges the notion of an ethnically homogenous "Maya people" within their region and chronology, and the authors explain how their work contributes to the definition of "ethnicity" for ancient Maya society.

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Information

Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Year
2017
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781607326991
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Maps
  7. List of Tables
  8. Foreword
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction: On Constructing a Shared Understanding of Historical Pasts and Nearing Futures
  10. Part I: Maya Identities of the Present and the Ethnographic Past
  11. Chapter 2. Reimaging the World: Maya Religious Practices and the Construction of Ethnicity in a Mesoamerican Frame
  12. Chapter 3. Ethnoexodus: Escaping Mayaland
  13. Chapter 4. Itzaj and Mopan Identities in Petén, Guatemala
  14. Chapter 5. Maya Ethnogenesis and Group Identity in Yucatán, 1500–1900
  15. Chapter 6. Differentiation among Mayan Speakers: Evidence from Comparative Linguistics and Hieroglyphic Texts
  16. Part II: Archaeological Explorations of Identity Construction
  17. Chapter 7. Establishing the Preconditions for Ethnogenesis among the Classic Maya of the Upper Belize River Valley
  18. Chapter 8. He’s Maya, but He’s Not My Brother: Exploring the Place of Ethnicity in Classic Maya Social Organization
  19. Chapter 9. Considering the Edge Effect: Ethnogenesis and Classic Period Society in the Southeastern Maya Area
  20. Chapter 10. Copán, Honduras: A Multiethnic Melting Pot during the Late Classic?
  21. Chapter 11. Conclusion: Identity, Networks, and Ethnicity
  22. List of Contributors
  23. Index

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