Article: Claiming collective memory: Maya languages and civil rights.

Article: The Gift of Maya; Walter Morris, Sharing His Cultural ...
The Washington Post;  February 3, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... until it too crumbled. Still, the Maya continued to record the movements ... But first, he had to learn the Maya languages (too different to be called dialects ... Morris learned the many ways the Maya say "hello," but he found it very ...

Article: Reading signs: Maya studies today and tomorrow; PART TWO
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times);  December 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... often current speakers using a modern Maya tongue will clarify something written ... glyphs reflect the work of numerous Maya languages, of which as many as 30 exist today ... what went before." Vestiges of the Maya past exist in more visible ways as ...

Article: Literary Continuities across the Transformation from Maya ...
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... in the first seven rows represent the Maya long-count date, 8.14.3.1 ... in Row 8 refers to the day 1 Eb in the Maya ritual calendar of 260 days. Of special ... sit,' which is chum in the relevant Maya languages. The fi

Article: Culture Shocker; Scholars Say Mel Gibson's Action Flick ...
The Washington Post;  December 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... willful misrepresentation of the Maya," says David Freidel, archaeology ... this case, it's one of the extant Maya languages called Yucatek, which along with ... to set his go-fast story. The Maya appealed to him, Gibson says, because ...

Article: Star gods of the Maya: astronomy in art, folklore, and ...
Antiquity;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... corpus about today's Maya ethnic groups, centring ... chapter is about `The Maya in the World Astronomy ... either in Spanish or in Maya languages and Spanish (the Popol ... what the contemporary Maya say about astronomy and ... 1930. Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central ...

Article: `Lost' sacred language of the Maya is rediscovered
The Independent on Sunday;  December 7, 2003 ;     563 words ... ... that, in spoken form, the ancient Maya elite sacred language was extinct ... and spread, other Central American Maya languages came to be spoken. But because of its association with the first Maya civilisation, successive generations ...

Article: EARLY TEXTS ILLUMINATE EARLY COLONIAL MAYA
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Maxwell. The two worked from 500-year-old Maya texts, which were written by postconquest Maya scribes in the Latin alphabet. "It was part ... sound strange, but I have worked on a lot of Maya languages, but when I started learning Kaqchikel ...