Ancient Maya Women

Traci Ardren is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She codirects the Pakbeh Regional Economy Project centered at the ancient Maya trading city of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Her research has focused on gender, iconography, architecture and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record.

Deftly edited by Traci Ardren, Ancient Maya Women is a fascinating compilation... A very highly recommended compilation of amazing discoveries and extrapolations of a long-ago culture—and an essential, seminal, core addition to Mayan Studies academic reference collections.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1. Women and Gender in the Ancient Maya WorldChapter 3 2. Gender and Mayan Farming: Chan Noohol, BelizeChapter 4 3. Gender Divisions of Labor and Lowland Terrace AgricultureChapter 5 4. Spindle Whorls: Household Specialization at CerenChapter 6 5. Death Became Her: Imagery of Female Power from Yaxuna BurialsChapter 7 6. Engendering a Dynasty: A Royal Woman in the Margarita Tomb, CopanChapter 8 7. Lady K'awil, Goddess O, and Maya WarfareChapter 9 8. Women in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic TextsChapter 10 9. Women in the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Chichen ItzaChapter 11 10. Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third GenderChapter 12 11. Representations of Women in Postclassic and Colonial Maya Literature and ArtChapter 13 12. Encountering Maya WomenChapter 14 IndexChapter 15 About the Authors