"Traditional Mayan practices have long promoted unique levels of family harmony: But what effect is globalization having?." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 11 / 241116195631.htm ...

Array Compared to 30 years ago, researchers found that some aspects of collaboration have changed in this community, likely due to the impacts of globalization. However, families still maintain ...

Beilin said she began this project when she became interested in the relationship between humans and non-humans, like animals, plants and natural forces. Beilin wanted to investigate the extent to ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization at the Yaxnohcah ruins (Yucatán Peninsula) were conducted with hallucinogens.

The ancient Maya and Aztecs had detailed calendars that celebrated New Year's Eve at different times, with traditions to mark ...

In Mexico, locals have relied on traditional healers, or curanderos, for centuries. But if you think that demand for mystic Mayan practices has fallen off in the age of AI, you’d be wrong. Today, we ...

(RNS) — Like many Indigenous people in the lands colonized by Spain, Calixta Gabriel Xiquín was raised Catholic in Guatemala, but her grandparents taught her the ancient Maya rituals. She was, in her ...

Jade inlays, typically reserved for adults, have been discovered on the teeth of young Maya children aged only 8 to 10 years, challenging our understanding of this ancient civilization. These dental ...

Exploring the contributions of the creative arts and embodied practices and beliefs to truth and justice seeking processes in Guatemala and beyond, led by Professor M. Brinton Lykes and Professor ...

A new paper in the journal Child Development shows how some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala have fundamentally shifted with rapid globalization, yet families have ...