THE EMERGENCE OF MAYA IDENTITY IN THE PRE- AND EARLY CLASSIC
Patricia A. McAnany: Habitus and Hierarchy: The Double Helix of Preclassic Maya Ethnicity, pp. 9–18; Jesper Nielsen: The Coming of the Torch: Observations on Teotihuacan Iconography in Early Classic Tikal, pp. 19–30; Robert Sharer & Loa Traxler: The Foundations of Ethnic Diversity in the Southeastern Maya Area, pp. 31–43.

IDENTIFYING ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD Estella Weiss-Krejci: Identifying Ethnic Affiliation in the Maya Mortuary Record, pp. 47–60; Johan Normark: Ethnicity and the Shared Quasi-Objects: Issues of Becoming Relating to Two Openfronted Structures at Nohcacab, Quintana Roo, Mexico, pp. 61–81.

REGIONAL IDENTITIES IN CLASSIC MAYA LANGUAGE AND WRITING
Pierre Robert Colas: Personal Names: A Diacritical Marker of an Ethnic Boundary Among the Classic Maya, pp. 85–98; Søren Wichmann & Albert Davletshin: Writing with an Accent: Phonology as a Marker of Ethnic Identity, pp. 99–106.

ETHNICITY AND THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF ELITE IDENTITIES
Elizabeth Graham: An Ethnicity to Know, pp. 109–124; Geoffrey E. Braswell: A Forest of Trees: Postclassic K’iche’an Identity and the Anthropological Problem of Ethnicity, pp. 125–140.

REPRESENTATIONS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN CLASSIC RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE
Elisabeth Wagner: Ranked Spaces, Ranked Identities: Local Hierarchies, Community Boundaries and an Emic Notion of the Maya Cultural Sphere at Late Classic Copán, pp. 143–164; Jerald D. Ek: Domestic Shrines, Ancestor Veneration and the Ritual Production of Group Identity, pp. 165–181.

THE CONCEPT OF ‘SELF’ AND ‘OTHER’ IN HISTORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Wolfgang Gabbert: Indians, Maya and Mayeros: Ethnicity and Social Categorisation in Yucatan, Mexico – A Diachronic Perspective, pp. 185–198; Bodil Liljefors Persson: Con Maya uinice – Maya and The Other: (Re-)constructing Maya Ethnic Identity in Yucatec Maya (Con-)texts, pp. 199–208; Allen J. Christenson: You Are What You Speak: Maya as the Language of Maize, pp. 209–216.

LOCAL IDENTITIES AND THE SEARCH FOR A MODERN PAN-MAYA IDENTITY
Santiago Bastos: Ser maya en el siglo XXI: el proceso de construcción y difusión de una identidad política, pp. 219–232; Jon Schackt: Q’eqchi’ Ladinos and “White Indians”: Cultural Identities in Northern Guatemala, pp. 233–244; Ulrich Köhler: Identidades étnicas entre los Tzotziles de los Altos de Chiapas: Sus puntos de referencia en contextos cambiantes, pp. 245–254; Armin Hinz: Generating Identities: Presence and Representations of Social Actors in Cultural Performances of the Cruzoob-Maya in Quintana Roo, pp. 255–267.