| Contents |
Introduction : on constructing a shared understanding of historical pasts and nearing futures / Bethany J. Beyyette -- Reimaging the world : Maya religious practices and the construction of ethnicity in Mesoamerican frame / Mathew C. Samson -- From ethnogenesis to ethnoexodus : Mayas, Dzulo'ob, and the politics of identity in Yucatán / Juan Castillo Cocom, Timoteo Rodriguez, and McCale Ashenbrener -- Itzaj and Mopan identities in Peten, Guatemala / Charles Andrew Hofling -- Maya ethnogenesis and group identity in Yucatan, 1500-1900 / Matthew Restall and Wolfgang Gabbert -- Differentiation among Maya speakers : evidence from comparative linguistics and from hieroglyphic texts / Martha J. Macri -- Right place, right time : preconditions for ethnogenesis among the classic Maya of the Upper Belize River Valley / Lisa J. LeCount -- He's Maya, but he's not my brother : exploring the place of ethnicity in classic Maya social organization / Damien B. Marken, Stanley P. Guenter, and David A. Freidel -- Considering the edge effect : ethnogenesis and classic period society in the southeastern Maya area / Marcello A. Canuto and Ellen E. Bell -- Copan, Honduras, a multi-ethnic melting pot during the late classic? / Rebecca Storey -- Conclusion / Ed Schortman. |
