TY - BOOK AU - LeCount,Lisa J. AU - Beyyette,Bethany J. ED - Project Muse. TI - "The Only True People" SN - 9781607325673 AV - F1435.3.E72 O55 2017 U1 - 305.89742 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Boulder PB - University Press of Colorado KW - Mayas KW - Ethnic identity KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction : on constructing a shared understanding of historical pasts and nearing futures; Bethany J. Beyyette --; Reimaging the world : Maya religious practices and the construction of ethnicity in Mesoamerican frame; Mathew C. Samson --; From ethnogenesis to ethnoexodus : Mayas, Dzulo'ob, and the politics of identity in Yucatán; Juan Castillo Cocom, Timoteo Rodriguez, and McCale Ashenbrener --; Itzaj and Mopan identities in Peten, Guatemala; Charles Andrew Hofling -- Maya ethnogenesis and group identity in Yucatan, 1500-1900; Matthew Restall and Wolfgang Gabbert --; Differentiation among Maya speakers : evidence from comparative linguistics and from hieroglyphic texts; Martha J. Macri -- Right place, right time : preconditions for ethnogenesis among the classic Maya of the Upper Belize River Valley; Lisa J. LeCount --; He's Maya, but he's not my brother : exploring the place of ethnicity in classic Maya social organization; Damien B. Marken, Stanley P. Guenter, and David A. Freidel --; Considering the edge effect : ethnogenesis and classic period society in the southeastern Maya area; Marcello A. Canuto and Ellen E. Bell --; Copan, Honduras, a multi-ethnic melting pot during the late classic?; Rebecca Storey --; Conclusion; Ed Schortman N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50019/ ER -