Photo of woman making pottery

Vol. 4 / No. 4

By: Ruben E. Reina

The Ritual of the Skull in Peten, Guatemala

The history of the Department of Peten in Guatemala has unique features when compared to the rest of Mesoamerica. These […]

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Vol. 5 / No. 4

By: Ruben E. Reina

The Potter and The Farmer: The Fate of Two Innovators in a Maya Village

Chinautla is a small Maya town of approximately 1500 people, descendants of the Pokomam-speaking group which once occupied large portions […]

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Photo of man with cattle in lake

Vol. 9 / No. 1

By: Ruben E. Reina

A Peninsula That May Have Been An Island: Tayasal, Peten, Guatemala.

Since the beginning of this century archaeologists and scientists in related disciplines have looked for clues and facts relating to […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 1

By: Ruben E. Reina

Sixteenth Century Guatemala: Archivos de Indias, Seville

After several decades of archaeological and ethnographic field work in the Maya area, the need to study, from an ethnographic […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 2

By: Ruben E. Reina, Annette B. Weiner and Edward O'Flaherty, S.J.

Ethnohistory and Archaeology in Colonial Antigua, Guatemala

The visitor to modern Antigua, Guatemala, receives the impression that he is stepping back into the Colonial period. The ruins […]

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Vol. 23 / No. 3

By: Ruben E. Reina and John Monaghan

The Ways of The Maya: Salt Production in Sacapulas, Guatemala

Guatemalans of Maya ancestry, living in rural communities, possess a wide variety of skills and technologies for the manu­facture of […]

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Vol. 27 / No. 1

By: Ruben E. Reina

A Maya Teacher: A Day of Fieldwork in the Mountains of Guatemala

Dedicated to the memory of Geral­dine Bruckner. April days in the year 1955 were extremely dry. Thin dust floated over […]

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Vol. 30 / No. 2

By: Ruben E. Reina

The Sacred World of the Maya: Costumbre and Religion in Guatelmala

Dedicated to my friend and former student, Edwin C. Buxbaum Nothing is more real than the real; and that is […]

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