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The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Robert S. Carlsen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-16 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán
The Burden of the Ancients
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Allen J. Christenson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-11 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebi
Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Rosalyn Bold
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-29 - Publisher: Springer

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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, an
Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: David Stoll
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-25 - Publisher: Westview Press

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"Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor G
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: Barbara W. Edmonson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-28 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to