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Article: The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya.
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THE HEART OF THE SKY
Travels Among the Maya Peter Canby HarperCollins, $25, 350 pp.
Utatlan is a Maya archaeological site located in the Guatemalan highlands. I was there on October 12, 1992, when hundreds of Maya descendants gathered for their own religious and political commemoration of Columbus's Quincentennial, an event marking what many view as the beginning of a five-hundred-year assault on their culture. Dressed in colorful traje (traditional clothing), with young children at their sides, people burned incense, hoisted protest banners and celebrated their traditions. Amid the archaeological ruins of their ancestors, the celebration proclaimed ...