{"id":15144,"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?p=15144&preview=true&preview_id=15144"},"modified":"2022-05-16T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:28:37","slug":"what-is-mayincatec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/05\/05\/what-is-mayincatec\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mayincatec?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

What is Mayincatec?<\/h2>\n\n
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A CAREER IN RUINS<\/strong> Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/em> (2008) is rife with Mayincatec imagery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A pernicious media misrepresentation of the pre-Colombian civilisations<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

The vast majority of representations of indigenous peoples in Central and South America in film and television do not depict a single culture \u2013 say, the Maya \u2013 but a visual and societal hodgepodge of all of them into one screen-friendly image. This is derogatively known as \u2018Mayincatec\u2019, a conflation of Maya, Inca and Aztec.<\/p>\n\n

Typical Mayincatec depictions are all human sacrifice, rituals and curses, and a jumble of artistic and architectural elements \u2013 plus a general focus on the white explorers in their lands, from conquistadors to Indiana Jones in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. <\/em>In real life, the Maya of Mesoamerica, Inca of Peru and Aztec of Mexico were their own distinct cultures and, separated by hundreds of miles, had nothing to do with each other.<\/p>\n\n

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PICTURE CREDIT: ALAMY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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