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<i> A 'must have' book for Mayanists. ?</i><b> Bodil Liljefors Persson, Malmo University</b>

A 'must have' book for Mayanists. --Bodil Liljefors Persson, Malmo University This edited volume of 11 essays is one of the first to explore the issue of Maya identity in the most comprehensive terms from the point of view of Maya archaeology and epigraphy, linguistics, history, and ethnography. . . . The essays trace avenues for future research and showcase research techniques and data sources that can clarify the complicated, changing nature of Indigenous identities. Highly recommended.? ? ?--CHOICE A 'must have' book for Mayanists. ? Bodil Liljefors Persson, Malmo University

A 'must have' book for Mayanists. --Bodil Liljefors Persson, Malm University This edited volume of 11 essays is one of the first to explore the issue of Maya identity in the most comprehensive terms from the point of view of Maya archaeology and epigraphy, linguistics, history, and ethnography. . . . The essays trace avenues for future research and showcase research techniques and data sources that can clarify the complicated, changing nature of Indigenous identities. Highly recommended. --CHOICE The diversity of critical perspectives on identity and ethnicity creates a mass of scholarship that. . . . should be read by all students of Maya archaeology, of ethnicity, and of postcolonial radicalization. --Latin American Antiquity

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Bethany J. Beyyette is assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at University of Maryland University College, Europe Division. Her research is strongly interdisciplinary and focuses on ethnic identities and racial formation in postcolonial contexts. Lisa J. LeCount is professor of anthropology at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and director of the Actuncan Archaeological Project in Belize. She is an anthropological archaeologist who has published on provincial politics, feasting, kitchens, markets, and pre-Columbian pottery as markers of time and identity.

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