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"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity--how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers investigate ethnicity and other forms of group identity at a number of Maya sites and places, from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and across different time periods, from the Classic period to the modern day.
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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