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Author | : Traci Ardren |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780759100107 |
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The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies--archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography--to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon recent fieldwork in Central America, examine the role of women in Maya society, their place in the political hierarchy and lineage structures, the gendered division of labor, and the discrepancy between idealized Mayan womanhood and the daily reality, among other topics. In each case, the complexities and nuances of gender relations is highlighted and the limitations of our knowledge acknowledged. These pieces represent an important advance in the understanding of Maya socioeconomic, political, and cultural life--and the archaeology of gender--and will be of great interest to scholars and students.
Author | : Ambar Past |
Publisher | : Cinco Puntos Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1933693711 |
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This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about their poetics, beliefs, and history. In the 1970s, living among the Maya, Past watched the people endure as an epidemic swept through a village. No help came. Many children died. One mother offered her dead child a last sip of Coca-Cola and uttered a prayer: Take this sweet dew from the earth, take this honey. It will help you on your way. It will give you strength on your path. Incantations like this—poems about birth, love, hate, sex, despair, and death—coupled with primitive illustrations, provide a compelling insight into the psychology of these Mayan women poets. The Cinco Puntos edition of Incantations is a facsimile of the original handmade edition produced by the Taller Leñateros. It was reviewed in The New York Times. At the age of twenty-three, Ambar Past left the United States for Mexico. She lived among the Mayan people, teaching the techniques of native dyes and learning to speak Tzotzil. She is the creator of the graphic arts collective Taller Leñateros in Chiapas and was a founding member of Sna Jolobil, a weaving cooperative for Mayan artisans.
Author | : Mary Jo McConahay |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Mayas |
ISBN | : 1569765480 |
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Author | : David Carey Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135394431 |
Download Engendering Mayan History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past. Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatamalan, Mayan, and Latin American history.
Author | : Christine Eber |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292742487 |
Download The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers that perspective in one woman's own words. Anthropologist Christine Eber met "Antonia" in 1986 and has followed her life's journey ever since. In this book, they recount Antonia's life story and also reflect on challenges and rewards they have experienced in working together, offering insight into the role of friendship in anthropological research, as well as into the transnational movement of solidarity with the indigenous people of Chiapas that began with the Zapatista uprising. Antonia was born in 1962 in San Pedro Chenalhó, a Tzotzil-Maya township in highland Chiapas. Her story begins with memories of childhood and progresses to young adulthood, when Antonia began working with women in her community to form weaving cooperatives while also becoming involved in the Word of God, the progressive Catholic movement known elsewhere as Liberation Theology. In 1994, as a wife and mother of six children, she joined a support base for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Recounting her experiences in these three interwoven movements, Antonia offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to her people's traditions.
Author | : Nancy Day |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822530770 |
Download Your Travel Guide to the Ancient Mayan Civilization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life during the Maya civilization, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Author | : David Carey, Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 029274868X |
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Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state’s ability to co-opt Guatemalans by hearing their voices in court. Against the backdrop of two of Latin America’s most oppressive regimes—the dictatorships of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898–1920) and General Jorge Ubico (1931–1944)—David Carey Jr. explores the ways in which indigenous people, women, and the poor used Guatemala’s legal system to manipulate the boundaries between legality and criminality. Using court records that are surprisingly rich in Maya women’s voices, he analyzes how bootleggers, cross-dressers, and other litigants crafted their narratives to defend their human rights. Revealing how nuances of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and morality were constructed and contested, this history of crime and criminality demonstrates how Maya men and women attempted to improve their socioeconomic positions and to press for their rights with strategies that ranged from the pursuit of illicit activities to the deployment of the legal system.
Author | : Lewis Spence |
Publisher | : New York : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carla McKinney Brenner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
Download Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lynn V. Foster |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195183634 |
Download Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.