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Paul Kontny
A Modern Artist in Europe and America
Confronting the "Good Death"
Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?
The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?Brent E. Metz explores the complicatedissue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over thepast two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya.
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
Aztec Antichrist
Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico
Living Ruins
Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
Life at the Margins of the State
Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies
Zooarchaeological Perspectives
Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
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