Description:
From early struggles to remove foreign influence to present-day battles over land tenure and indigenous-run ecotourism parks, this book documents a continuity in Maya culture over several thousand years--and illuminates the world view, with its sense of personhood and religion so different from the West's, that informs this enduring culture.
Brief description:
Brent K. S. Woodfill is Assistant Professor at Winthrop University and Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Ritual and Trade in the Pasión-Verapaz Region, Guatemala.
Review Quotes: "Brent K.S. Woodfill's engaging and lucid story of the Transversal, the frontier between the Guatemalan highlands, home to millions of modern Maya, and lowlands, home to the famous Classic Maya civilization, is exemplary. War in the Land of True Peace is worth reading by everyone interested in the Maya." --David A. Freidel, coauthor of A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya