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On the Trail of the Maya Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd Stephens; Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 253–255.
Published: 01 January 2006
... 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...
View articletitled, On the Trail of the <span class="search-highlight">Maya</span> Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd Stephens; Romancing the <span class="search-highlight">Maya</span>: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915
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Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 529–530.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Timothy W. Knowlton Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul . By Andrew K. Scherer . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . xiv +291 pp., introduction, maps, color and black-and-white photographs, black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index...
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The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Allen J. Christenson The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan . By Mark Z. Christensen . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . xv + 321 pp., illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, conclusion, appendix, notes...
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In This Body: Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Meghan Farley Webb In This Body is an accessible ethnography on body/soul dynamics in the Kaqchikel Maya town of Comalapa. Numerous references to examples in other Maya communities bolster Hinojosa’s ethnography; however, the book would have been enhanced if he had engaged with literature...
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Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Erlend M. Johnson; Pastor Gómez Zúñiga; Mary Kate Kelly Abstract Scholars argue that western Honduras was occupied by Ch’orti’ speakers in the sixteenth century. These reconstructions conform to nationalist pressures to present Honduras as Maya, by using Classic period (AD 200–900) archaeological...
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Ambivalence and Conquest: Recent Studies of Maya Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution in the Colonial Period
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 805–809.
Published: 01 October 2004
... renditions of human interaction
that do not privilege race and tribe over all other possibilities. It will be
challenging.
Ambivalence and Conquest:
Recent Studies of Maya Resistance, Revolt,
and Revolution in the Colonial Period
Paul Sullivan, Independent Scholar
Maya Revolt and Revolution...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 709–739.
Published: 01 October 2010
...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...
View articletitled, Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation of the Yax Cheel Cab , a <span class="search-highlight">Maya</span> World Tree
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Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 335–336.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Thomas H. Guderjan Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil . Edited by Scott R. Hutson . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2017 . xix+376 pp., foreword, maps, bibliography, index. $75.00 hardcover.) Copyright 2020 by American Society...
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On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage Politics and Community Development in the Yucatán
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 April 2020
...James H. McDonald On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage Politics and Community Development in the Yucatán . By Sarah R. Taylor . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2018 . xvii+159 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, references, index. $22.95 paperback...
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Perinatal Rites in the Ritual of the Bacabs , a Colonial Maya Manuscript
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 721–744.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Timothy W. Knowlton; Edber Dzidz Yam Abstract Pregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women’s most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes...
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A Comparison of Historical Evidence for Droughts in the Pre-Columbian Maya Codices with Climatological Evidence for Droughts during the Early and Late Classic Periods
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 97–126.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Harvey M. Bricker; Victoria R. Bricker Abstract An examination of several historical texts in the Maya codices reveals that droughts were a significant concern to the pre-Columbian Maya that ultimately resulted in the collapse of their civilization. The effects of such droughts mentioned in those...
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View articletitled, A Comparison of Historical Evidence for Droughts in the Pre-Columbian <span class="search-highlight">Maya</span> Codices with Climatological Evidence for Droughts during the Early and Late Classic Periods
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Classic Maya birth scene on ceramic vase with aged god emerging from a gapi...
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Figure 1a. Classic Maya birth scene on ceramic vase with aged god emerging from a gaping reptilian mouth (K1198; research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya.html ; Photograph copyright by Justin Kerr; used with permission).
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Traditional three-stone hearth ( koben ) in the residence of a Maya herbali...
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Figure 4. Traditional three-stone hearth ( koben ) in the residence of a Maya herbalist in Pisté, Yucatán (photograph by Timothy W. Knowlton, 13 June 2013)
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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 1. Drought-related hieroglyphs in the Maya Codices. a, kin-tun-haabil “drought” (D.45b). b, chetun kak “wildfire” (D.45b). c, u-budz “his smoke” (D.40b). d, u-toc “it burns” (D.40b). e, chac haal “red rain/heavy rain” (D.71c). f, yah nal “woe to maize!” (D.45b). g, yah winac
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The Burden of the Ancients: Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-Columbian Period to the Present
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 561–562.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... There are not unadulterated continuities from the Maya past but lasting influences. It is about accumulation rather than replacement of beliefs. The Maya World Tree melds with the Christian cross. Like the B’akab’, who hold up the sky, Rilaj Mam oversees the death of the old world and the birth of the new. The Monumento...
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The Chilam Balam of Ixil: Facsimile and Study of an Unpublished Maya Book
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 364–365.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Mark Christensen [email protected] The Chilam Balam of Ixil: Facsimile and Study of an Unpublished Maya Book . By Laura Caso Barrera . With the participation of Mario M. Aliphat F. Translated (Spanish to English) by Quentin Pope . ( Leiden : Brill , 2019 . vii + 395...
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K'axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 798–799.
Published: 01 October 2005
... Maya Village. Edited by
Patricia A. McAnany. (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at
UCLA, 2004. ix + 467 pp., preface, bibliography, glossary, index, CD.
$65.00 cloth.)
Traci Ardren, University of Miami
With her most recent publication on Classic-period Maya village life, Patri-
cia...
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The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 800–801.
Published: 01 October 2005
... Maya Village. Edited by
Patricia A. McAnany. (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at
UCLA, 2004. ix + 467 pp., preface, bibliography, glossary, index, CD.
$65.00 cloth.)
Traci Ardren, University of Miami
With her most recent publication on Classic-period Maya village life, Patri-
cia...
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Becoming Maya: Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucatn Since 1500
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 July 2005
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more on his effort to explain rather than to present information as such,
an effective didactic method. He notes, for example, that ‘‘the problem of
the Classic Maya civilization is not just why it collapsed, but also why it
existed at all’’ (86), reminding us that historical explanation hinges...
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The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 801–802.
Published: 01 October 2005
... Maya Village. Edited by
Patricia A. McAnany. (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at
UCLA, 2004. ix + 467 pp., preface, bibliography, glossary, index, CD.
$65.00 cloth.)
Traci Ardren, University of Miami
With her most recent publication on Classic-period Maya village life, Patri-
cia...
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