Halperin Christina (Associate Professor Of Anthropology At The Universite De Montreal.)
Halperin Christina (Associate Professor Of Anthropology At The Universite De Montreal.) - Foreigners Among Us Alterity And The Making Of Ancient Maya Societies - Paperback
Halperin Christina (Associate Professor Of Anthropology At The Universite De Montreal.) - Foreigners Among Us Alterity And The Making Of Ancient Maya Societies - Paperback
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Description: Assessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative component of identity Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of Pre - Columbian Maya and questions not only who these foreigners might have been but who were making such designations of difference in the first place. Drawing from identity studies standpoint theory and ideas on alterity Foreigners Among Us highlights the diverse ways being foreign was constituted imitated and marked from quotidian practices of making corn tortillas to ceremonial acts between king and captive and their memorialization in scenes on sculpted stone monuments. Rather than treat the foreign as axiomatically determined by geographical distance or fixed at birth the book considers the foreign as much performed as inherited. It examines practices of captivity cuisine body ornamentation and dress diasporic objects relationships with deities migration and pilgrimage. The book focuses in particular on diverse peoples in the Maya area during the Classic and Postclassic periods but also necessarily peers into contacts engagements and relations throughout Mesoamerica the Americas more broadly and with Europeans during the Colonial period all the while insisting that outsider status must be approached as multi - scalar relational and intersectional rather than as neutral intrinsic and static. Contributing broadly to intellectual investigations on foreign identities from an anthropological perspective this book enriches the understanding of Maya society for students and researchers of Mesoamerican archaeology and art history.
Title: Foreigners Among Us Alterity And The Making Of Ancient Maya Societies
Author(s): Halperin Christina (Associate Professor Of Anthropology At The Universite De Montreal.)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032263205
Pages: 214 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 23 Halftones, Color; 29 Halftones, Black And White; 29 Illustr
Publication Date: 9/14/2023
Category: Archaeology By Period / Region
Description: Assessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative component of identity Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of Pre - Columbian Maya and questions not only who these foreigners might have been but who were making such designations of difference in the first place. Drawing from identity studies standpoint theory and ideas on alterity Foreigners Among Us highlights the diverse ways being foreign was constituted imitated and marked from quotidian practices of making corn tortillas to ceremonial acts between king and captive and their memorialization in scenes on sculpted stone monuments. Rather than treat the foreign as axiomatically determined by geographical distance or fixed at birth the book considers the foreign as much performed as inherited. It examines practices of captivity cuisine body ornamentation and dress diasporic objects relationships with deities migration and pilgrimage. The book focuses in particular on diverse peoples in the Maya area during the Classic and Postclassic periods but also necessarily peers into contacts engagements and relations throughout Mesoamerica the Americas more broadly and with Europeans during the Colonial period all the while insisting that outsider status must be approached as multi - scalar relational and intersectional rather than as neutral intrinsic and static. Contributing broadly to intellectual investigations on foreign identities from an anthropological perspective this book enriches the understanding of Maya society for students and researchers of Mesoamerican archaeology and art history.
Title: Foreigners Among Us Alterity And The Making Of Ancient Maya Societies
Author(s): Halperin Christina (Associate Professor Of Anthropology At The Universite De Montreal.)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032263205
Pages: 214 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 23 Halftones, Color; 29 Halftones, Black And White; 29 Illustr
Publication Date: 9/14/2023
Category: Archaeology By Period / Region
