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To Be Like Gods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

To Be Like Gods

Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010 The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift exchange. These performances allowed rulers to forge political alliances and demonstrate their control of trade in luxury goods. The aesthetic values embodied in these performances were closely tied to Maya social structure, expressing notions of gender, rank, and ...

Weaving the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Weaving the Past

Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in nat...

In Pursuit of Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

In Pursuit of Gender

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Homenaje a Jaime Litvak
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 416

Homenaje a Jaime Litvak

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: UNAM

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Caminando por la Historia
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 626

Caminando por la Historia

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Antropología de la eternidad
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 556

Antropología de la eternidad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: UNAM

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Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages

New perspectives on an important era in Mesoamerican history This volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period (2000 BCE–250 CE), an era that helped produce some of the world’s most renowned complex civilizations. The chapters offer significant data, innovative methodologies, and novel perspectives on Mexican archaeology. Using diverse and non-traditional theoretical approaches, contributors discuss interregional relationships and the exchange of ideas in contexts ranging from the Gulf Coast Olmec region to the site of Tlatilco in Central Mexico to the often-overlooked cultures of the far wes...