Ancient Maya Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Maya Women write by Traci Ardren. This book was released on 2002. Ancient Maya Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies--archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography--to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon recent fieldwork in Central America, examine the role of women in Maya society, their place in the political hierarchy and lineage structures, the gendered division of labor, and the discrepancy between idealized Mayan womanhood and the daily reality, among other topics. In each case, the complexities and nuances of gender relations is highlighted and the limitations of our knowledge acknowledged. These pieces represent an important advance in the understanding of Maya socioeconomic, political, and cultural life--and the archaeology of gender--and will be of great interest to scholars and students.
Incantations
Incantations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incantations write by Ambar Past. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Incantations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about their poetics, beliefs, and history. In the 1970s, living among the Maya, Past watched the people endure as an epidemic swept through a village. No help came. Many children died. One mother offered her dead child a last sip of Coca-Cola and uttered a prayer: Take this sweet dew from the earth, take this honey. It will help you on your way. It will give you strength on your path. Incantations like this—poems about birth, love, hate, sex, despair, and death—coupled with primitive illustrations, provide a compelling insight into the psychology of these Mayan women poets. The Cinco Puntos edition of Incantations is a facsimile of the original handmade edition produced by the Taller Leñateros. It was reviewed in The New York Times. At the age of twenty-three, Ambar Past left the United States for Mexico. She lived among the Mayan people, teaching the techniques of native dyes and learning to speak Tzotzil. She is the creator of the graphic arts collective Taller Leñateros in Chiapas and was a founding member of Sna Jolobil, a weaving cooperative for Mayan artisans.
Maya Roads
Maya Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maya Roads write by Mary Jo McConahay. This book was released on 2011. Maya Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Engendering Mayan History
Engendering Mayan History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engendering Mayan History write by David Carey Jr.. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Engendering Mayan History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past. Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatamalan, Mayan, and Latin American history.
The Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Popol Vuh write by Lewis Spence. This book was released on 1908. The Popol Vuh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
