... boundaries while allowing individuals to change their ethnic identities in the community of Ticul. In both a synchronic and diachronic analysis, Thompson traces the evolution of the earlier Maya-Hispanic division of society to the contemporary status hierarchy of the subordinate Mestizo (Maya Indian based...

...Mary Miller Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period . By Jackson Sarah E. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 173 pp. Cloth , $26.95 . Mortuary Landscapes...

...Anthony P. Andrews Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize . Edited by Hammond Norman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Graphs. Notes . xxi , 260 pp. Cloth . $89.50 . Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copán...

...David Brown Despite the author’s enthusiasm for adventure, it might be best if he were to steer clear of unbridged gaps in the scholastic topography while touring the land of the Maya. An epilog entitled “In the Beginning ...,” which is concerned primarily with the pre-Classic Highland...

...Megan McDonie Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K'iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the “Theologia Indorum.” By Garry G. Sparks Louisville : University Press of Colorado , 2019 . Photograph. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 434 pp. Cloth, $99.00...

...Elizabeth Graham Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan . By Solari Amara . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 212 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...Patricia A. McAnany Maya Lords and Lordship: The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600 . By Quezada Sergio . Translated by Rugeley Terry . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography...

...Mark Christensen Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography . By Palka Joel W. . Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables...

...David Tavárez In the end, Christensen's brief and gracious introductions to a variety of examples from the Nahua and Maya catechistic corpus provide a compelling point of entry for the study of what is revealed, upon close inspection, to be a diverse and challenging corpus that defies easy...

...Grant D. Jones Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Indigenous Cultural Change . By Palka Joel W. . Maya Studies Series . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . xxi...

...Pete Sigal The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya . By Houston Stephen , Stuart David , and Taube Karl . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006...

...Patricia A. Mcanany As a fellow Maya archaeologist, I can take issue with several interpretive assertions in this book, but I also appreciate its readability, ambitious scope, persuasiveness, and sophisticated synthesis of archaeological materials. Because of these strengths, this book...

...Kathleen M. McIntyre Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas . By Moksnes Heidi . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2012 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 339 pp. Paper , $26.95 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

..., in the essay about how democratic elections undermined traditional Maya authority, the authors argue that, “until recently” (p. 77), indigenous mayors enjoyed the respect of their people and were largely free from corruption. Contentious relations with and accusations of corruption against Maya authorities...

...Othín Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico . By Faust Betty Bernice . Foreword by Meggers Betty J. . Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...Robert S. Carlsen Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkibe’ij Kan Qate’ Qatata’ . By Carey David Jr. Preface by Burns Allan F. . Contemporary American Indian Studies Series . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2001 . Map. Notes. Glossary...

...Ward Stavig From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire . By Sigal Pete . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2000 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 320 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $15.95 . Copyright 2003 by Duke...

...Terry Rugeley Maya Survivalism . Edited by Hostettler Ueli and Restall Matthew . Acta Mesoamericana , vol. 12 . Markt Schwaben, Germany : Verlag Anton Saurwein , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographies . xiv , 325 pp. Cloth...

... University Press 2003 Goodman’s Maya Apocalypse provides a richly detailed account of daily life among members of an apostolic congregation in a small town in Yucatán. The volume traces the history and evolution of this congregation from its establishment in 1960 through a dramatic apocalyptic crisis...

...Don E. Dumond Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatán . Edited by Rugeley Terry . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 224 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright 2003 by Duke...