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  2. Maya peoples - Wikipedia

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    Maya family from Yucatán A boy playing Maya trumpet opposite of Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico. There is often a relationship between cultural heritage, tourism, and a national identity. In the case of the Maya, the many national identities have been constructed because of the growing demands placed on them by cultural tourism.

  3. Women in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    Women play a significant role in rituals, cooking food for consumption and sacrifice. Whether women participated in said rituals is unknown. Women also worked on all of the textiles, an essential resource, and product for Maya society. The status of women in Maya society can be inferred from their burials and textual and monumental history.

  4. Women rulers in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    This was accompanied by a shift in women's roles from wife and mother to playing integral parts in courtly life, such as participating in rituals involving the supernatural world and at times ruling individual polities. A handful of women are described and depicted on monuments taking on roles and titles that were usually reserved for men. [1]

  5. Maya society - Wikipedia

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    Maya women filed their teeth, or had holes drilled into them where precious stones or luxury materials, such as jade, pyrite, hematite, or turquoise could be inlaid into the teeth. [12] High-status women often had their teeth filed, in different patterns, and would have jadeite , hematite , pyrite , turquoise , or other decorations inset into ...

  6. Perhaps the Mayans Were Predicting This Catastrophic Event - AOL

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  7. Gender roles in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica - Wikipedia

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    Some Mesoamerican women were able to assume roles as political leaders, such as women in Maya society, others such as women in Mexica society were not. [7] However while Mexican women couldn't serve in this capacity, they were given equal legal and economic rights and noble Mexican women could become priestesses. [ 5 ]

  8. Women in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    According to the consensus chronology of Mesoamerica, many Mayan cities reached their highest state of development during the Classical period (c. 250 to 900 AD), and continued throughout the post-Classical period until the arrival of the Spanish in 1519 AD. Women within Mayan society were limited in regards to status, marriage, and inheritance.

  9. Mayans MC Comes to a Brutal End With Deadly Series ... - AOL

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    Across its five seasons, Mayans MC has warmly embraced its Sons of Anarchy origins, bringing back familiar faces and meaningfully weaving the Sons into Mayans storylines for years. It was only ...