The argument of this article, "Mayan Cognition, Memory, and Trauma", is organized around the following general themes: understanding representational “exaggeration” for signifying indigenous others; assessing the differences for the social agency of recollection, especially in relation to lawyer-oriented depositions and researcher-oriented interviews; analysing the cognitive aspects of surviving the Guatemalan genocide and examining the cognition of discrimination among Mayan-immigrants in South Florida. Empirical data for this essay is based upon oral histories of three Mayan-immigrants currently living in Palm Beach County, Florida, and archival data from legal depositions in the 1980s and 1990s of five Mayan-immigrants in Martin County, Florida. Important aspects of this paper analyse the hist ...