Author: Mauricio Wiesenthal
Publisher:
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Category : Yucatan
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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Author: Mauricio Wiesenthal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788474240498
Category : Mayas
Languages : es
Pages : 91

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Author: Mauricio Wiesenthal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788425312793
Category : Mayas
Languages : es
Pages : 91

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Author: Mauricio Wiesenthal
Publisher:
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Category : Mayas
Languages : es
Pages : 26

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Author: Travis W. Stanton
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784910090
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 533

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This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatan.

Author: Wolfgang Gabbert
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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In Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, it is commonly held that the population consists of two ethnic communities: Maya Indians and descendants of Spanish conquerors. As a result, the history of the region is usually seen in terms of conflict between conquerors and conquered that too often ignores the complexity of interaction between these groups and the complex nature of identity within them. Yet despite this prevailing view, most speakers of the Yucatec Maya language reject being considered Indian and refuse to identify themselves as Maya. Wolfgang Gabbert maintains that this situation can be understood only by examining the sweeping procession of history in the region. In Becoming Maya, he has skillfully interwoven history and ethnography to trace 500 years of Yucatec history, covering colonial politics, the rise of plantations, nineteenth-century caste wars, and modern reforms—always with an eye toward the complexities of ethnic categorization. According to Gabbert, class has served as a self-defining category as much as ethnicity in the Yucatán, and although we think of caste wars as struggles between Mayas and Mexicans, he shows that each side possessed a sufficiently complex ethnic makeup to rule out such pat observations. Through this overview, Gabbert reveals that Maya ethnicity is upheld primarily by outsiders who simply assume that an ethnic Maya consciousness has always existed among the Maya-speaking people. Yet even language has been a misleading criterion, since many people not considered Indian are native speakers of Yucatec. By not taking ethnicity for granted, he demonstrates that the Maya-speaking population has never been a self-conscious community and that the criteria employed by others in categorizing Mayas has changed over time. Grounded in field studies and archival research and boasting an exhaustive bibliography, Becoming Maya is the first English-language study that examines the roles played by ethnicity and social inequality in Yucatán history. By revealing the highly nuanced complexities that underlie common stereotypes, it offers new insights not only into Mesoamerican peoples but also into the nature of interethnic relations in general.

Author: Mauricio Wiesenthal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788425313578
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 31

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Author: William Dudley Foulke
Publisher:
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Category : Mayas
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Diego de Landa
Publisher: Linkgua
ISBN: 8498976537
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 99

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La Relación de las cosas de Yucatán apareció hacia 1566. Es una obra de referencia para entender el mundo maya. En su madurez el sacerdote franciscano Diego de Landa se dedicó al estudio de dicha cultura. Landa encontró similitudes entre el cristianismo y la religión maya, en lo concerniente a los sacrificios humanos y ofrendas de sangre. Asociando estas ofrendas con el carácter sacrificial de la figura de Cristo, que había dado su vida por la humanidad. Diego de Landa, que llegó a ser obispo de Yucatán, recogió gran cantidad de información sobre la historia, el modo de vida y las creencias de los mayas en el siglo XVI. El valioso documento original se perdió, y la única copia disponible, incompleta, se descubrió en el siglo XX en la Real Academia de la Historia. Destaca en el manuscrito la descripción del calendario precolombino y el breve comentario sobre la misteriosa escritura jeroglífica maya. Para algunos investigadores éste es el equivalente yucateco de la famosa piedra de Roseta, que supuso gran ayuda en el desciframiento de los signos egipcios. El texto es un registro de la cultura de los mayas yucatecos en el momento de la conquista. Y tiene el propósito de ayudar a los nuevos evangelizadores a efectuar su tarea de manera más eficiente y didáctica. La Relación de las cosas de Yucatán comparte con otros manuscritos de los misioneros de Indias su interés en las civilizaciones de América. Del mismo talante son la Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, o la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias y la Apologética historia de Bartolomé de las Casas.

Author: Lean Sweeney
Publisher: UNAM
ISBN: 9789703234097
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 220

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