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Nine Mayan womenBook 1976 • Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay)
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a very personal study of Chan Kom in the early seventies prior to the building of the road which connected the village to the city of Merida. It focusses on the lives of nine women, all related to the village's patriarch. In the first part, E...