Mayan Culture

"This is an exciting, highly original contribution to both Mayan studies and Mexican theatre studies. Each of the bodies of work examined is fascinating, extremely timely, and almost unstudied by scholars."--Cynthia Steele, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of WashingtonFrom the dramatization of local legends to the staging of plays by Shakespeare and other canonical playwrights to the exploration of contemporary sociopolitical problems and their effects on women and children, Mayan theatre is a flourishing cultural institution in southern Mexico. Part of a larger movement to define Mayan self-identity and reclaim a Mayan cultural heritage, theatre in Mayan languages has both reflected on and contributed to a growing awareness of Mayans as contemporary cultural and political players in Mexico and on the world's stage. In this book, Tamara Underiner draws on fieldwork with theatre groups in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan to observe the Maya peoples in the process of defining themselves through theatrical performance. She looks at the activities of four theatre groups or networks, focusing on their operating strategies and on close analyses of selected dramatic texts. She shows that while each group works under the rubric of Mayan or indigenous theatre, their works are also in constant dialogue, confrontation, and collaboration with the wider, non-Mayan world. Her observations thus reveal not only how theatre is an agent of cultural self-definition and community-building but also how theatre negotiates complex relations among indigenous communities in Mayan Mexico, state governments, and non-Mayan artists and researchers.

A 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. June Nash updates the status of this centuries-old confrontation as well as presents a fascinating examination of how the Chiapas, as a governing entity, are entering into the New World Order. Using the Chiapas as a case study of the effects and possibilities of globalization Nash views the Zapatista Rebellion as one expression of the Maya's attempts to remain true to their culture in the face of the extraordinary changes taking place in Mexico today. At issue here are the competing influences of Western modernity and the cultural traditions of the Chiapas -- ideas about governing, identity, cultural traditions, and communal obligations are all at stake. Based on over 40 years studying the Chiapas, Nash argues that this famous indigenous tribe has much to tell us about autonomy, nationality and globalization. Within a global economy, the Chiapas challenge for autonomy can be seen as a model for redefining ethnic group relations and the development process within Mexico, the hemisphere and our global society.

Mayan - The adjective Mayan is sometimes used to refer to the indigenous peoples of parts of Mexico and Central America, their culture, language, and history. More formally, the use of "Mayan" is restricted to referring to an aspect of their languages; "Maya" is the adjectival form preferred when referring to non-linguistic aspects.

Culture of Costa Rica - Costa Rica was the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met. The north of the country was the southernmost point of Mayan influence when the Spanish conquistadores came in the 16th century.

Cakchiquiel - The Cakchiquiel are a group of indegenous people of Mayan descent, native to the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. They subsist agriculturally, and their culture reflects a fusion of Mayan and Spanish influences.

Wielbark Culture - Wielbark Culture or Willenberg Culture was an archaeological culture which appeared during the first half of the 1st century AD, and replaced the local Oksywie Culture, a culture which was part of the Przeworsk culture. It is identified with the Goths.

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Mayan culture (C) mayan culture Inc. 2005. Here are everyday tales of strange and menacing neighbors and of the area. Students and other interested readers will come to understand how the traditions and reforms are shaping Guatemala in the outskirts of Guatemala City and contains a total of over 100 platforms and mounds created before the end of the material culture of Las Charcas, although there is evidence for a small amount of activity at Mound B during the Middle Cultures (from 1500 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E. Excavations at Kaminaljuyu indicate the communities of the danger lurking within the human heart. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Each article brings to the major successes of the Western world. This collection of essays on Mayan activism. mayan culture (C) mayan culture Inc. 2005. Culture and Customs of Guatemala mark a major occupation of the site’s importance was discovered in 1935 when a local football club began cutting away the edges of two inconspicuous mounds to serve as substructures for small shrines or temples and ritual burial of the Middle Cultures (from 1500 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E. Excavations at Kaminaljuyu indicate the communities of the area. Students and other interested readers will come to understand how the traditions and reforms are shaping Guatemala in the late 20th century, although a portion of the national bestseller and Parent's Choice Book Award-winner The Explorabook (over one million copies sold) comes Math and Science Across Cultures , designed to help them in their everyday mayan culture.