The roles and representation of women in Maya society has been a comparatively little-studied subfield of Mayanist research, which has benefited from increasing scholarly attention since the latter-half of the 20th century. Specialists working in such fields as archaeology, anthropology, art history and ethnography have separately and jointly begun to address and expand upon what is known about the representations of Maya women in Maya art and literature, and their everyday lives- both for the pre-Columbian Maya civilization and among modern-day Maya peoples.
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