Maya ethnicity
Subtitle: the construction of ethnic identity from preclassic to modern times : proceedings of the 9th European Maya Conference, Bonn, December 10-12, 2004
By: Frauke Sachse (editor)
Contributors: Sachse, Frauke
Series: Acta Mesoamericana -- v. 19
Publisher: A. Saurwein
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Markt Schwaben
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783931419158
Subjects: Mayas; Ethnic identity; Congresses; Ethnoarchaeology; Antiquities
Other titles: Construction of ethnic identity from preclassic to modern times :; Proceedings of the 9th European Maya Conference, Bonn, December 10-12, 2004
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

16 English, 2 Spanish contributions.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of Maya identity in the Pre- and Early Classic.; title: Habitus and hierarchy :; title: the double helix of Preclassic Maya ethnicity  -- Patricia A. McAnany ;; title: The coming of the torch :; title: observations on Teotihuacan iconography in Early Classic Tikal  -- Jesper Nielsen ;; title: The foundations of ethnic diversity in the Southeastern Maya area  -- Robert Sharer & Loa Traxler; title: Identifying ethnic identity in the archaeological record.; title: Identifying ethnic affiliation in the Maya mortuary record  -- Estella Weiss-Krejci ;; title: Ethnicity and the shared quasi-objects :; title: issues of becoming relating to two openfronted structures at Nohcacab, Quintana Roo, Mexico  -- Johan Normark; title: Regional identities in Classic Maya language and writing.; title: Personal names :; title: a diacritical marker of an ethnic boundary among the Classic Maya  -- Pierre Robert Colas ;; title: Writing with an accent :; title: phonology as a marker of ethnic identity -- Søren Wichmann & Albert Davletshin; title: Ethnicity and the social dynamics of elite identities.; title: An ethnicity to know  -- Elizabeth Graham ;; title: A forest of trees :; title: Postclassic K'iche'an identity and the anthropological problem of ethnicity  -- Geoffrey E. Braswell; title: Representations of identity construction in Classic religious architecture.; title: Ranked spaces, ranked identities :; title: local hierarchies, community boundaries and an emic notion of the Maya cultural sphere at Late Classic Copán  -- Elisabeth Wagner ;; title: Domestic shrines, ancestor veneration and the ritual production of group identity  -- Jerald D. Ek; title: The concept of "self" and "other" in historical and ideological perspective.; title: Indians, Maya and Mayeros :; title: ethnicity and social categorisation in Yucatan, Mexico :; title: a diachronic perspective  -- Wolfgang Gabbert ;; title: Con Maya uinice :; title: Maya and the other :; title: (re- )constructing Maya ethnic identity in Yucatec Maya (con- )texts  -- Bodil Liljefors Persson ;; title: You are what you speak :; title: Maya as the language of maize  -- Allen J. Christenson; title: Local identities and the search for a modern pan-Maya identity.; title: Ser maya en el siglo XXI :; title: el proceso de construcción y difusión de una identidad política  -- Santiago Bastos ;; title: Q'eqchi' Ladinos and "White Indians" :; title: cultural identities in Northern Guatemala  -- Jon Schackt ;; title: Identidades étnicas entre los Tzotziles de los Altos de Chiapas :; title: sus puntos de referencia en contextos cambiantes  -- Ulrich Köhler ;; title: Generating identities :; title: presence and representations of social actors in cultural performances of the Cruzoob-Maya in Quintana Roo -- Armin Hinz.