I have spent almost two decades researching and working with Maya women weavers in Guatemala, and I just spent the last year living there. People often ask me if it’s worth buying Maya textiles as a ...

Medical providers in the United States who discuss the use of contraceptives with Maya women migrants might discover strong reluctance and complex beliefs about the social and physical benefits of ...

A Guatemalan court sentenced three former paramilitaries each to 40 years in prison for crimes against humanity for raping six Indigenous Maya Achi women between 1981 and 1983, at the height of ...

At the grand opening of the new Guatemalan Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach, a young Maya girl is seen wearing a trajes, which is a traditional embroidered dress often worn by indigenous groups in ...

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

Introduction : language ideologies, collective identities, and the politics of exclusion -- The paradox of ethnolinguistic identity : essentialisms, state-sponsored violence, and cultural righs -- ...

A genocide trial has been underway in Guatemala since April 5 — and although Pedro Brito Matom says it's too dangerous now for him to attend it, he takes consolation in knowing he helped bring the ...