... Cakchiquel Maya into French and took it back to Europe, although by the end of the century it had been acquired by the collector-scholar Daniel Brinton, who willed it to the University of Pennsylvania (where it remains). The ninety-six-page manu- script is a copy made around the turn of the eighteenth...

...Sarah E. Jackson Dictionaries of Mayan languages, recorded by Spanish priests in the early years of the colonial period, provide a rich body of data for investigating indigenous systems of governance around the time of contact. Dictionary sources drawn from four geographical regions of the Maya...

... by the mytho-historical content of the better-known indigenous text, the Popol Vuh. Although the títulos were created for territorial disputes and claims to rights before the Spanish legal system, they also represented Maya-K’iche’ responses to colonial domination and reveal how the Maya K’iche’ perceived...

...Brian Stross The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, The Codical Texts . By Macri Martha J. and Vail Gabrielle . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2009 . xii + 308 pp., acknowledgments, editorial note, introduction, abbreviations, catalog, appendixes, references...

...Thomas H. Guderjan Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community . By Arnold Dean R. . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2008 . 351 pp., foreword, preface, references, index . $70.00 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American...

...), he opts to title one of his chapters ‘‘Giving Disease a Bad Name In the end, it all comes down, morally as much as mathematically, to a new world form of Holocaust denial. Maya...

...Robert W. Patch By Grant D. Jones. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press,1998. xxvii + 568 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, glossary,bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) 2000 Book Reviews The Conquest of the Last Maya...

...Kenneth J. Andrien By Matthew Restall. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press,1997. xiv + 441 pp., preface, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography,index. $75.00 cloth). 2000 Book Reviews The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society...

...Paul Sullivan By Gary H. Gossen. (New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxiii + 309 pp., preface,illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth.) 2000 Book Reviews Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico. By Gary H...

... Maya History. By Victor Montejo. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, xiv + pp., illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliography, index. cloth.) Walter E. Little, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Since the late s, the effects of state violence against Mayas has been one of the major...

...David Carey, Jr. Edited by Marshall N. Peterson. (Lancaster, : Labyrinthos,1999. xviii + 105 pp. preface, introduction, maps, tables, illustrations,bibliography. $12.50 paper.) 2001 Book Reviews The Highland Maya in Fact and Legend...

...: Commodities in Cultural Perspective . Arjun Appadurai, ed. Pp. 3 -63. New York: Cambridge University Press. Castañeda, Quetzil E. 2004 “We Are Not Indigenous!” An Introduction to the Maya Identity of Yucatan. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 . 1 : 36 -63. De la Cadena, Marisol 2000...

...Ben Fallaw This political biography explores the ambiguous ethnicity of Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978), the first person of Maya descent to govern Yucatán since the Spanish Conquest. Son of an upwardly mobile, Maya-speaking, afromestizo middle-class family, García Correa's normal education...

...Walter E. Little This essay discusses how Mayas, and visual images of them as discursively constructed subjects/objects, are located in dictator Jorge Ubico's economic development and modernization policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Ubico's contradictory policies of promoting Maya essentialness...

... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a very useful reference in the field. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029 Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa- tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...

... that European trade goods would have formed a pivotal component of that analysis. Despite this, Foster’s volume stands as an important contribution to the archaeology of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a very useful reference in the field. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029 Maya...

...John F. Chuchiak, IV This paper offers a revisionist viewpoint on the nature of colonial Maya literacy, showing that the colonial Yucatec Maya elite utilized both the traditional hieroglyphic script and the new alphabetic writing skills taught by the Franciscan friars. By adapting and utilizing...

.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Turner, Victor 1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Reinterpreting Sacrality among the Ancient Maya: Recent Works on the Deified Nature of Death, Dance, and Geography Amara Solari...

...Timothy W. Knowlton; Gabrielle Vail During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya...

...Susan Kepecs By Heather McKillop. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xxii+ 186 pp., notes, bibliography, index, maps, tables. $55.00 cloth.) 2004 Andrews, Anthony P. 1983 Ancient Maya Salt Production and Trade . Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1998 El...