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Acknowledgements
The three essays included in this volume were, previously published as chapters in books and journals in the United States. I am thankful to Professor Liliana Goldin (editor), for the permission to reprint, "Tied to the Land: Maya Migration, Exile and Transnationalism". It was first published in Identities on the move: transnational processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Albany, New York, 1999.
Also, I am thankful to Dr. Michael F. Brown, President of the School of Advanced Research (SAR). The essay, "Angering the Ancestors: Transnationalism and Economic Transformation of Maya Communities in Western Guatemala" is: "Reprinted by permission from Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities, edited by John M. Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer. Copyright 2004 by the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. All rights reserved."
Finally, "The Rabbit and the Goat: A Trickster's Tale of Transnational Migration of Mayas to the United States of America (El Norte), was originally presented in a conference at Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, México), in 1998. This essay was recently published in Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis, published by Digital Commons, Kennesaw State University. Vol. 1, Iss. 1, Article 4, 2019. This e-journal is edited by Alan LeBaron, to whom I am thankful for allowing me to use the article in this new volume.
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Víctor Montejo
Professor Emeritus, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis. Víctor Montejo is a nationally and internationally recognized author.
His major publications include: Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village (1987). Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History (1999); Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Critical Essays on Identity, Representation, and Leadership. Austin: University of Texas Press (2003); Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Mayas (1999); Q'anil: Man of Lightning, University of Arizona Press (2002). The Adventures of Mister Puttison Among the Mayas, Yax Te' Press (1998); The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables, Curbstone Press (1991); Oxhlanh B'ak'tun: Recordando al Sacerdote Jaguar en el Portón del Nuevo Milenio, Editorial Cultura, Guatemala (2003); Pixan: El Cargador del Espíritu, Editorial Piedra Santa, Guatemala, (2014); Secuestro a ultratumba (historical novel). Windmills International Editions, California (2020); Sueños y Presagios: Poemas, Windmills International Editions, California (2021). Ixim: La Leyenda del descubrimiento del maíz, Editorial POE, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (2020); Entre dos Mundos (Memoria), Editorial Piedra Santa, Guatemala (2021); Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures, SUNY Press (2021).
