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Maya Medicine
University of New Mexico Press 2012; US$ 30.00The entire process of traditional healing is examined in a small town in the Yucatán Peninsula near the ruins of Chichén Itzá, including the use of medicinal plants, massage, and ritual. more...
For Every Indio Who Falls
University of New Mexico Press 2010; US$ 29.95By following indigenous organizing experiences at multiple levels--local, regional, national, and international--this book explores how some Mayas became involved in political activism and opposition to a repressive state. more...
The Maya of Modernism
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 45.00This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery. more...
The Maya World of Communicating Objects
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 75.00Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice. more...
Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 70.00A presentation of research on all aspects of Maya civilization, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. It profiles the everyday routines of the Maya with coverage of society, warfare, religion, architecture, astronomy, economy, writing and daily life. more...
Bones of the Maya
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 34.95During the last 20 years new techniques in osteology have yielded findings on Maya diet and health that challenge the ecological model of collapse. This volume, which includes an index bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology, brings together for the first time, a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on... more...
Mayan Visions
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion. more...
Buried Secrets
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 38.00Based on exhaustive research, this work chronicles the journey of Maya survivors seeking truth, justice and community healing. It demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya during La Violencia in the 1970s and 80s. more...
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 29.95For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including monumental ceremonial structures, elite and... more...
The Americas That Might Have Been
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies? It assumes that Columbus did not embark from Spain in 1492 and that no Europeans found... more...









