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"The Only True People"

"The Only True People" [electronic resource] / edited by Bethany J. Beyyette, Lisa J. LeCount. - Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Introduction : on constructing a shared understanding of historical pasts and nearing futures / Reimaging the world : Maya religious practices and the construction of ethnicity in Mesoamerican frame / From ethnogenesis to ethnoexodus : Mayas, Dzulo'ob, and the politics of identity in Yucatán / Itzaj and Mopan identities in Peten, Guatemala / Differentiation among Maya speakers : evidence from comparative linguistics and from hieroglyphic texts / He's Maya, but he's not my brother : exploring the place of ethnicity in classic Maya social organization / Considering the edge effect : ethnogenesis and classic period society in the southeastern Maya area / Copan, Honduras, a multi-ethnic melting pot during the late classic? / Conclusion / Bethany J. Beyyette -- Mathew C. Samson -- Juan Castillo Cocom, Timoteo Rodriguez, and McCale Ashenbrener -- Charles Andrew Hofling -- Maya ethnogenesis and group identity in Yucatan, 1500-1900 / Matthew Restall and Wolfgang Gabbert -- Martha J. Macri -- Right place, right time : preconditions for ethnogenesis among the classic Maya of the Upper Belize River Valley / Lisa J. LeCount -- Damien B. Marken, Stanley P. Guenter, and David A. Freidel -- Marcello A. Canuto and Ellen E. Bell -- Rebecca Storey -- Ed Schortman.

"A timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity--how it developed, how it emerged and how it continues to change. Challenges the notion of ethnically homogenous "Maya peoples" for their region and chronology"--Provided by publisher.

9781607325673




Mayas--Ethnic identity.


Electronic books.

F1435.3.E72 / O55 2017

305.89742