Christina Halperin

Foreigners Among Us (eBook, PDF)

Alterity and the Making of Ancient Maya Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000904406
• Artikelnr.: 68518009

Autorenporträt

Christina T. Halperin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines ancient Maya politics from the perspectives of households, gender, materiality, and everyday life. Halperin has conducted archaeological field investigations in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize since 1997. She has published extensively on topics such as ceramic figurines, textiles, the production and circulation of polychrome pottery, architecture, and landscape archaeology. Halperin is author or editor of Vernacular Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas (2017), Maya Figurines: Intersections between State and Household (2014) and Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Tropes of the Foreigner: From Famous Royals to Humble Migrants
Chapter 3 Captive Performances: Spectacles and the Everyday
Chapter 4 Cuisines and the Relational Making of People
Chapter 5 Pilgrimages to Foreign Places and the Acts of Becoming
Chapter 6 Looking In From Afar: Representations of Mayas
Chapter 7 Conclusion
References.