Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries

Peter Hervik has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Currently he is researching the Danish response to emerging multiculturalism. Hervik is the Editor of Folk-theJournal of the Danish Ethnographic Society.

• List of Figures List of Maps List of Illustrations List of National Geographic Plates List of Tables Preface 1. 1. The People of Oxkutzcab, Yucatan 2. Social Categories in Yucatan 3. External Constructions of the Maya 4. Maya and Mestizo : Two Different Worlds 5. Learning to be Indian : New Ethnic and Cultural Identities in Oxkutzcab 6. Voices In and About Popular Religion: The Competing Constructions of Participants and Authorities 7. Shared Social Experience and Co-developing Reflexivities 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

"[T]he first truly fresh perspective on Yucatan in recent history...an excellent and unusual book... The author breaks so much new ground, raises so many challenging issues, and brings such a new perspective to the field of Mayan studies, that this is ... an extremely important work." -- Richard Wilk of Indiana University