Ch'orti Maya Area: Past and Present

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Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1. The “Ch′orti′ Area” 1 Brent E. Metz part i The Chorti Language and Its Relationship to Ancient Mayan 2. The Linguistic Affiliation of Classic Lowland Mayan Writing and the Historical Sociolinguistic Geography of the Mayan Lowlands 15 David Mora-Marín, Nicholas Hopkins, and Kathryn Josserand 3. Most Maya Glyphs Are Written in Ch′olti′an 29 Danny Law, John Robertson, Stephen Houston, and Robbie Haertel part ii The Pre-Columbian History of the Chorti Area 4. The Environmental Record of Human Population and Migration in the CopanValley, Honduras 47 Cameron L. McNeil 5. Who Were Those Classic Period Immigrants into the Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador? 61 Payson Sheets 6. Archaeological Investigations in the CamotánValley, Guatemala 78 Carson N. Murdy 7. Ethnographic Analogy and the Archaeological Construction of Maya Identity at Copan, Honduras 90 Allan L. Maca 8. Lightning Is Born: Using Ch′orti′ Ritual to Interpret Ancient Maya Art 108 Matthew Looper 9. The Ch′orti′ Past: An Archaeological Perspective 124 Robert J. Sharer part iii The Southeastern Maya Periphery during the Colonial Period 10. The Ch′orti′ Maya of Eastern Guatemala under Imperial Spain 137 Stewart Brewer 11. Some Data and Reflections on the Demographic Dynamism and Continuity of the Colonial Ch′orti′ Population: The Many Copans and San Juan Ermita 148 Lawrence H. Feldman part iv The Chorti Today 12. Searching for Ch′orti′ Maya Indigenousness in Contemporary Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador 161 Brent E. Metz 13. A Chorti Tale, Coyote and Rabbit: Told by Lorenza Martínez 173 John G. Fought and Isidro González 14. Dualism and Worldview among the Ch′orti′ Maya 187 Kerry M. Hull 15. Ajk′opot Gente: The Unrecognized Keepers of Maya Plant Lore 198 Johanna Kufer 16. Ethnic Diversity in Reproductive Health Behavior: A Case Study of the Ch′orti′ Area 214 Sofie De Broe 17. From Indigenous Movement to Indigenous Management: Conflict and Accommodation in Ch′orti′ Maya Ethnopolitics 230 William M. Loker 18. Copan Past and Present: Maya Archaeological Tourism and the Ch′orti′ in Honduras 246 Lena Mortensen 19. Representational and EnactedViolence against Guatemalan Ch′orti′s in the Famine of 2001 258 Julián López García part v Putting Chorti Research in Longitudinal Context 20. The Mystery of Charles Wisdom: Producing Ch′orti′ Ethnography during the Great Depression, 1930–1940 275 Charles Lincoln Vaughan Bibliography 289 Contributors 335 Index 339 ...