... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Mark Lentz Abstract Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters...

...Alanna Ossa The Ancient Maya Marketplace: The Archaeology of Transient Space . Edited by King Eleanor M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. x, 325 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

..., as it will allow instructors to emphasize different aspects of the text (depending on the level and type of class) and student readers to do likewise, exploring the manuscript to whatever depth and degree they are able. Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Ancient Maya. Electronic Library . Translated and edited...

...Matthew Restall In eighteenth-century Yucatán a Maya scribe made a copy of a document called u kahlay cab tu kinil , a phrase that Timothy Knowlton translates as “the world history of the era” (p. 1). The scribe’s copy ran to about ten folios and is today preserved in the larger colonial-era...

.... Amatenango is a fairly typical Mesoamerican highland community, with a traditional economy based on agriculture and pottery making. In social structure, world view, and religion and ritual it generally resembles other Maya-speaking southern Mexican communities. A highly developed cosmology gives substance...

...George F. Andrews This is not a book for serious Mayanists, but first-time visitors to the Maya area will find it to be a useful overview of what to look for and how to find it. With any luck at all, readers who take their own color slides will finally have an accurate record of Maya ruins...

...Alfred M. Tozzer The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel: A Contribution to the History and Ethnography of the Yucatan Peninsula . By Scholes France V. and Roys Ralph L. , with the assistance of Adams Eleanor B. and Chamberlain Robert S. . [ Carnegie Institution...

...William J. Griffith Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 The Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stevens and the Lost Cities of Central America and Yucatán . By von Hagen Victor Wolfgang . [ American Exploration and Travel Series, No. 10 .] ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press...

...Charles Gibson A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs . By Eric J. Thompson S. . Norman , 1962 . University of Oklahoma Press . Illustrations. Plates . Pp. 458 . $20.00 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The difference between Thompson’s catalogue of Maya glyphs...

...Stephan F. Borhegyi Discovering the Lost Maya Cities . By Rau Jack . New York , 1960 . The Pre-Columbian Press . Map. Illustrations . Pp. 31 . $5.00 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 This attractive booklet by Jack Rau takes the reader on a fast trip...

... that is important for the colonial history of Mesoamerica. It also is a meticulously researched social history of a smaller Mayan town that encourages further research and comparison. Beyond the Ixil wills, only a few corpora of Maya testaments from the colonial period are known for the Yucatan peninsula (from...

...Brian Larkin Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico . By Amara Solari . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2019 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 187 pp. Cloth, $99.95 . Copyright © 2020...

... notable drawbacks. First, although the book will appeal to scholars of Yucatán, nonspecialists and especially undergraduates may find all the details packed into the narrative irksome. Second, the first chapter focuses on Maya history from antiquity to 1821, purportedly to show the deep historical roots...

...Linton Satterthwaite Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 The Maya Correlation Problem . By Makemson Maud Worcester . [ Vassar College Observatory, Publications, No. 5 .] ( Poughkeepsie : Artcraft Press , 1946 . Pp. 8 , 79 , v . Paper.) ...

...Alfred M. Tozzer Enciclopedia yucatanense conmemorativa del IV centenario de Mérida y Valhdolid ( Yucaián ). Tomo II. Época maya . Publicada bajo la direccidn de . . . Trujillo Carlos Echánove . [ Edición Oficial del Gobierno de Yucatãn .] ( Mexico : 1945 . Pp. 575 . Maps, diagrams...