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Mayan culture: Beyond boundaries
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The social categories "Maya" and "mestizo" have been applied to denote the Yucatec Mayan people in Mexico as discussed by the authors, and a cluster of perceived attributes (schemata) evoked by the terms a...Abstract:
The social categories “Maya” and “mestizo” have been applied to denote the Yucatec Mayan people in Mexico. This article examines the cluster of perceived attributes (schemata) evoked by the terms a...read more
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Cultural Logic and Maya Identity
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Cultural Logic and Maya Identity: Rethinking Constructivism and Essentialism [and Comments and Reply]
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Tourism in the Mundo Maya: Inventions and (Mis)Representations of Maya Identities and Heritage
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The Mysterious Maya of National Geographic
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Entre innovation et conservation: la Nouvelle Broderie commerciale maya*
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
TL;DR: In this article, a pengetahuan kognitif adalah tergolong bidang baru ying mengkaji pikiran atau nalar ying memperoleh pen getahuan dari bidang-bidang ilmu seperti psikologi, linguistik, antropologi and filsafat, and juga ilmu komputer.
Principles of categorization
TL;DR: On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into those that belong to the Emperor, and those that are trained, suckling pigs and stray dogs.