Kinship Terminology

Tillage

Special Crops

Production and Supply

Income and Demand

Occupational Specialization

Labor Supply and Employment

Bibliographies in Sources

Internal Trade

Travel

Highway Transport

Reviews and Critiques

Basis of Marriage

Regulation of Marriage

Nuptials

Termination of Marriage

Artificial Kin Relationships

Offenses Against the Person

Adulthood

Speech

Linguistic Identification

Cereal Agriculture

Vegetable Production

Arboriculture

Special Deposits

Topography and Geology

Water Supply

Settlement Patterns

Cosmology

Prehistory

History

Writing

Mythology

Identification

Organization and Analysis of Results

Inheritance

Personal Names

Social Readjustments to Death

Division of Labor by Gender

Real Property

Chief Executive

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Residence

Household

Extended Families

Lineages

Glossary

Nuclear Family

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Theory of Disease

Spirits and Gods

Religious Denominations

Religious Intolerance and Martyrs

Status, Role, and Prestige

Age Stratification

Community Structure

Territorial Hierarchy

External Relations

Organized Ceremonial

Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

Normal Garb

Clothing Manufacture

Ceramic Technology

External Trade

Sleeping

Pharmaceuticals

Hospitals and Clinics

Magical and Mental Therapy

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Medical Therapy

Architecture

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Verbal Arts

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Visual Arts

Oratory

Etiquette

Population

Visiting and Hospitality

Police

Social Control

Crime

Social Offenses

Family Relationships

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Skills

Traditional History

Ethnic Stratification

Warfare

Ethnometeorology

Location

Towns

Cities

Provinces

Revolution

CULTURE SUMMARY: MAYA (YUCATÁN PENINSULA)

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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As in pre-Columbian times, the Maya still inhabit the Yucatán Peninsula, including the Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche. They also live adjacent to other Maya groups such as the Kekchí; and Mopán in Belize, Guatemala, and the Mexican state of Tabasco. For most of the thousands of years of occupation of the peninsula, the Maya have relied upon slash-and-burn (milpa) agriculture. Maize, beans, and squash have long been planted together. The corn tortilla is a dietary staple. There is increasing pressure to participate in wage labor and sale to supplement subsistence. While there are Maya doctors, lawyers, school teachers and government officials, the vast majority of Maya men are limited to manual wage labor, and the women, mostly monolingual, produce embroidered hipil dresses, as well as home-raised animals and vegetables for sale.

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