Jennifer P. Mathews

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Construction of Maya Space

Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times

The University of Arizona Press

This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power—and how the powerless pushed back.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sugarcane and Rum

The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula

The University of Arizona Press

More than a history of coveted commodities, the unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews’s new historySugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Value of Things

Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region

The University of Arizona Press

The Value of Things examines the social and ritual value of commodities in Mesoamerica, providing a new and dynamic temporal view of the roles of trade of commodities and elite goods from the prehistoric Maya to the present. Well-known scholars examine the value of specific commodities in a broad time frame—from prehistoric, colonial, and historic times to the present.

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The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley

The University of Arizona Press
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Quintana Roo Archaeology

The University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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