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Construction of Maya Space

Thomas H. Guderjan

This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power—and how the powerless pushed back.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780816551873
Publication Date: Nov 2023
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War in the Land of True Peace

Brent K. S. Woodfill

From early struggles to remove foreign influence to present-day battles over land tenure and indigenous-run ecotourism parks, this book documents a continuity in Maya culture over several thousand years—and illuminates the world view, with its sense of personhood and religion so different from the West’s, that informs this enduring culture.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780806167282
Publication Date: Jul 2020
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Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán

Rajeshwari Dutt

Dutt's engaging exploration of the life and career of Andrés Canché, and of his fellow Maya caciques, illuminates the realities of politics in Yucatán, revealing that seemingly ordinary political relationships were carefully negotiated by indigenous leaders. Theirs is a story not of failure and decline, but of survival and empowerment.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780806155784
Publication Date: Mar 2017
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