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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Mayas"”.
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The culture of the Mayas as shown by their ruins
… high state of culture attained by the mysterious Mayas of Central America and Yucatan.</p><p> How old is their civilization? No one knows.</p><p> Where did they come from? Who can say?</p><p> What did they wish to tell us in their writings that have come down through those past thousands of years? …
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Educação física escolar : corpo, cultura e currículo
… a cultura desportiva da comunidade do Parque dos Mayas II na Praça Jorge dos Santos Rosa. O desempenho desportivo individual das crianças foi interpretado a partir da análise de cinco testes: sit and reash; força de membros inferiores; agilidade; resistência cardiorespiratória; velocidade de …
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Transnational Market and Community: The Social Relations of Kaqchikel Maya Vendors
… tourism brochures. Most often they are the only Mayas with whom tourists meet and interact. These vendors work and live most often within a tourism borderzone where Guatemalan state hegemony and national identity are weak and the meaning of Mayaness is constructed by international tourism …
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Memories of War: Race, Class, and the Production of Post Caste War Maya Identity in East Central Quintana Roo
… Caste War from the vantage point of Caste War Mayas. As noted by Victoria Bricker (1977:257) over twenty-five years ago, ""the history of the Caste War of Yucatan needs to be rewritten with more attention paid to the Maya version of the conflict."" By highlighting their own often-silenced views …
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A Balanced Approach to Health: Understanding the Health Care Practices of Guatemalan Maya in the United States
… This will increase the likelihood that the Mayas’ beneficial practices remain a part of their transnational culture, while also helping them to understand valuable biomedical knowledge and incorporate it into their cultural framework.</p>
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Patterns in Seal Iconography: A Frequency Model
In this thesis I explore iconography displayed on flat and roller seals manufactured during the Preclassic era in five Maya regions in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras as well as two collections of seals of the same age from Ecuador and Peru. I gathered a corpus of images and …
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The Palenque mapping project: settlement and urbanism at an ancient Maya city
The Palenque Mapping Project (1998-2000) intensively surveyed the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. The project covered 2.2 square kilometers of the city’s jungle shrouded plateau, documenting 1481 structures and over 16 linear kilometers of terracing. After a brief summary of …