"The Only True People" [electronic resource] / edited by Bethany J. Beyyette, Lisa J. LeCount.

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.

"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.

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