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Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice

Contributors:: Dennis Tedlock
Publisher:: Oxford University Press 2003
Subjects:: Rabinal-Achai
Quichae Drama--History And Criticism

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...00F3n-Portilla, Miguel. 1963. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient NahuatlMind. Norman: University...Oklahoma Press.León-Portilla, Miguel. 1969. Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico. Translated by Grace Lobanov...

Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua

Contributors:: David E. Whisnant
Publisher:: University of North Carolina Press 1995
Subjects:: Politics And Culture--Nicaragua--History
Nicaragua--Civilization
Nicaragua--Cultural Policy

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...statues,a few thousand examples of pre-Columbian pottery, and scattered objectsof...0029 concerning a rare Mayan stela illegally removed from Guatemala...0029, which arose from a theftof pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico; and the...

Death and the Classic Maya Kings

Contributors:: James L Fitzsimmons
Publisher:: University of Texas Press 2009
Subjects:: Mayas--Kings and Rulers--Death and Burial
Mayas--Funeral Customs and Rites
Mayan Languages--Writing
Tombs--Mexico
Human Remains (Archaeology)--Mexico
Mexico--Antiquities

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...7. SanFrancisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute...201313. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute...Burials. Texas Notes on Pre-ColumbianArt, Writing, and Culture No. 54. Austin: The Center...

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Data and Case Studies - Vol. 2

Contributors:: Takeshi Inomata
Stephen D. Houston
Publisher:: Westview Press 2001
Subjects:: Maya Architecture
Inscriptions, Mayan
Mayas--Kings And Rulers
Mayas--Antiquities
Royal Houses--Mexico

Royal Houses--Central America Mexico--Antiquities Central America--Antiquities
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...pp.55-62. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.—...222. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.—...City' of Caracol, Belize." Culture and Agriculture 20U...

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis - Vol. 1

Contributors:: Takeshi Inomata
Stephen D. Houston
Publisher:: Westview Press 2001
Subjects:: Mayas--Kings And Rulers
Maya Architecture
Mayas--Antiquities
Inscriptions, Mayan
Royal Houses--Mexico

Royal Houses--Central America Mexico--Antiquities Central America--Antiquities
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...Word and Image in Maya Culture: Explorations in Language...Belize: 1985-1987. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute...3.San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute...Caracol, Belize. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute...

Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference

Contributors:: Debprah Root
Publisher:: Westview Press 1996
Subjects:: Art And Society

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...explorer, in which Mayan temples and people...fascination with the pre-Columbian past, Aztec orMayan culture per se does not figure...Mexicoin the popular culture of Europe and Anglo...toa deity. Aztec culture is just a bit too...

Culture, Thought, and Development

Contributors:: Larry P. Nucci
Geoffrey B. Saxe
Elliot Turiel
Publisher:: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2000
Subjects:: Developmental Psychology
Social Evolution

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...onweaving, a practice that has been alive since pre-Columbian times, in Nabenchauk,a Mayan community in Chiapas, Mexico. She offers a...paths for exploring intrinsic relations between culture anddevelopment.The 1997 meetings of the Jean...

Consciousness and Culture: An Introduction to the Thought of Jean Gebser

Contributors:: Eric Mark Kramer
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1992
Subjects:: Civilization
Gebser, Jean
Consciousness

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...dichotomy of culture and nature...homogenized "world culture."By now Western...such aspre-Columbian, Indonesian...historicizedentities of past, pre-enlightened...integralpart of the pre-Columbian's world becomes...arecodependent. Being Mayan is enriched when...

Rights, Resources, Culture, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya

Contributors:: Betty B. Faust
E. N. Anderson
John G. Frazier
Publisher:: Praeger 2004
Subjects:: Mayas--Mexico--Yucataan (State)--Social Conditions
Maya Women--Mexico--Yucataan (State)--Social Conditions
Indigenous Peoples--Ecology--Mexico--Yucataan (State)
Conservation of Natural Resources--Mexico--Yucataan (State)
Biotic Communities--Mexico--Yucataan (State)

Ecosystem Management--Mexico--Yucataan (State) Yucataan (Mexico : State)--Social Conditions Yucataan (Mexico : State)--Economic Conditions Yucataan (Mexico : State)--Environmental Conditions
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...kept theirlanguage, culture, and customs amazingly...shed light on what the pre-Columbian societies might have...machismo] and the [culture of poverty] (Lewis...Similarly, in1990 the Mayan women vendors were banned...

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Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Contributors:: Zdenek Salzmann
Publisher:: Westview Press 1998 (2nd edition)
Subjects:: Anthropological Linguistics

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...or characters,of the Mayan writing system have been...that made use of writing in pre-Columbian times. TheAztecs, who...there is evidence that other pre-Columbian societies...scholars believing that the Mayan system stimulatedwriting...