UID:
almahu_9949598964902882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
ISBN:
9781003287698
,
1003287697
,
9781000904406
,
1000904407
,
9781000904468
,
1000904466
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Halperin, Christina T. Foreigners among us Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032263229
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003287698
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003287698
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