MAYA AMERICA: JOURNAL OF ESSAYS, COMMENTARY, AND ANALYSIS, publishes academic papers, commentary, personal reflections, and creative works such as literature and poetry. The name Maya America refers to the traditional lands of the Maya plus the new homelands of the Maya such as Canada and the United States. However, non-Maya topics can be considered as well. Academic essays are double-blind peer reviewed while the creative works are peer reviewed.
Maya America is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1 (2024) Tamales Mayas: History, Ritual, Culinary Practices
Full Issue
Complete Issue: Volume 6 Issue 1
Maya America Editors
Front Matter
Introductory Note in English
Maya America Editors
Introducción essay - Tamales mayas. Sabores en el tiempo
Laura Elena Sotelo Santos and Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
Articles
Aromas y sabores para los dioses mayas: alimentos de ixim y pom
Diana Peralta Cervantes
El tamal como parte integral del movimiento de revalorización gastronómica guatemalteca
Tomás Barrientos Q. and Mirciny Moliviatis
El Zacahuil: Lo Que Encubre y Lo Que Se Quiere Ver
Ana Bella Pérez Castro
Los tamales de la gente del pantano. Patrimonio gastronómico de los yokot’anob de Tabasco, México
Mauricio Hernández Sánchez
Tamales tsotsiles: léxico, usos y consumos
Margarita Martínez-Pérez and Jorge Alberto Jiménez-Hernández
Un recorrido iconoglífico por las antiguas representaciones del tamal en la Mesoamérica maya de Tierras Bajas
Daniel Martínez González
Reflections
Los tamales: alimento para los dioses, los espíritus de la milpa, el monte, los difuntos y las personas vivas
Laura Elena Sotelo Santos
Pa´ts Petejul: Maíz y frijol en la mesa
Fanny López Jiménez and María Méndez Vázquez
Report
Forced Family Separation: U.S. crimes against Indigenous Peoples
Lauren Heidbrink, Giovanni Batz, and David W. Barillas Chón
Production and Design Student Assistants at Kennesaw State University
Briana Castro-Balbi
David Dos Santos
Katie Lacoco
Student Production Assistants at the Universidad de Colima
Rosa Margarita Jaramillo Contreras
Karla Valletzi Rincon Bejarano
