Jennifer P. Mathews
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The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley
The University of Arizona Press
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
The Value of Things
Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region
Edited by Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan
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.
Quintana Roo Archaeology
Edited by Justine M. Shaw and Jennifer P. Mathews
The University of Arizona Press
- Copyright year: 2005
Construction of Maya Space
Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times
Edited by Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews
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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