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Foreigners among us : alterity and the making of ancient Maya societies

Title
Foreigners among us : alterity and the making of ancient Maya societies / Christina T. Halperin.
ISBN
9781032263229
1032263229
9781032263205
1032263202
9781003287698
9781000904468
9781000904406
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xviii, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Alterity and the making of ancient Maya societies
Other formats
Online version: Halperin, Christina T. Foreigners among us Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Tropes of the foreigner : from famous royals to humble migrants
Captive performances : spectacles and the everyday
Cuisines and the relational making of people
Pilgrimages to foreign places and the acts of becoming
Looking in from afar : representations of Mayas.
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