Mayan Journeys

Author : Wayne A. Cornelius
Publisher : Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University Iforni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayan Journeys written by Wayne A. Cornelius and published by Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University Iforni. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yucatán, an impoverished state in southern Mexico, has recently emerged as a significant source of US-bound migrants. Why did this state's indigenous population wait so long to enter the migration stream, and how do their experiences differ from those of earlier more traditional migrants? Mayan Journeys explores how internal migration to southern Mexico's tourist resorts serves as a springboard for international migration and how the new migrants navigate enhanced obstacles at the US-Mexico border and enter the US labor force. Drawing on an extensive 2006 survey of migrants and potential migrants in Tunkás, Yucatán, and its satellite communities in Southern California, the authors provide new evidence of the failure of US border enforcement to deter undocumented migration from Mexico"--Publisher's description.

Author : Wayne A. Cornelius
Publisher : Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University Iforni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayan Journeys written by Wayne A. Cornelius and published by Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University Iforni. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yucatán, an impoverished state in southern Mexico, has recently emerged as a significant source of US-bound migrants. Why did this state's indigenous population wait so long to enter the migration stream, and how do their experiences differ from those of earlier more traditional migrants? Mayan Journeys explores how internal migration to southern Mexico's tourist resorts serves as a springboard for international migration and how the new migrants navigate enhanced obstacles at the US-Mexico border and enter the US labor force. Drawing on an extensive 2006 survey of migrants and potential migrants in Tunkás, Yucatán, and its satellite communities in Southern California, the authors provide new evidence of the failure of US border enforcement to deter undocumented migration from Mexico"--Publisher's description.

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137289
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Among the Maya written by Ronald Wright and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).

Author : Mary Jo McConahay
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765480
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Roads written by Mary Jo McConahay and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carmen Fernández-Casanueva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reseña de "Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States" de Wayne Cornelius, David Fitzgerald Y Pedro Lewin Fischer (edits.) written by Carmen Fernández-Casanueva and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Among the Maya written by Ronald Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545391
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maya Art of Speaking Writing written by Tiffany D. Creegan Miller and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world. These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.

Author : Carol Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503587207
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in the Maya World written by Carol Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a guidebook, nor an illustrated manual, nor an academic resolution of the mystery of the Mayas. "Travels in the Maya World", instead, is lively, evocative, readable and funny. The descriptions are rich, full of color, flavor and texture, at the same time enveloped in history, based on keen observation, with a genuine love for the subject and its setting. Both a companion piece to a Maya Land trip and level-headed insight into the background of the culture, this book is well-informed, with often disturbing revelations: on the ecological drain on the habitat, on the social conflicts in the area, on problems and patterns inherited as a result of hundreds of years, consequences, really, of the use and misuse of the land and its people. A book as valuable as it is delightful.

Author : Peter Canby
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 : 9781568360263
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of the Sky written by Peter Canby and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorker editor Peter Canby spent two years studying Mayan culture, both past and present, to provide this vivid portrait of these enigmatic people, their life style and beliefs. A fascinating glimpse into a world long forgotten by outsiders. 15 maps.

Author : Zachary Alexander Jezek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880534151
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Journey to Becoming a Mayan Shaman written by Zachary Alexander Jezek and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful look into the life of a small boy with big dreams to heal the world... Written by a 10 year old boy, who has traveled from the Mayan ruins of Belize to the jungles of Costa Rica. This is a remarkable coming of age story of a young boy who works daily with a Mayan Shaman learning about the power of healing.