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Chan Kom: A Maya Village
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…Mexico’s foremost anthropologists, he wrote Chan Kom: A Maya Village (1934), which contained observations of contemporary Maya culture and considered a new question for anthropology in the 1930s, acculturation. A comparison of a tribal community, a peasant village, a provincial town, and Mérida, the Yucatán capital, formed the basis of…
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