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This reflection is part of a research process about the contemporary practice of Mayan ball game in Guatemala. It is an analytical approach to life witness demanded by a learning-research methodology shared with players of the process. Their life paths allow us to grasp through descriptions and actions, contemporary details of an ancient cultural, playful, and leisure expression. Also shows some ways where Central American ball game is a knowledge source of now-blurred tangible assets among discourses related to folklore, ethnicities, arts, sports, culture, spirituality and basic sciences, such as History, Anthropology and Archeology. Currently daily lives of ballplayers help us to understand some of ancient Mayan wisdom. Therefore, they are involved to evidences of archaeological intangible heritage depicted into the ball game fields scattered around Middle America.

Year of Publication
2012
Journal
Lúdica pedagógica
Issue
17
Number of Pages
41-50,
Date Published
2012///
ISBN-ISSN
2462-845X
URL
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extart?codigo=5401557
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