Circulation as Placemaking: Late Classic Maya Polities and Portable Objects

Halperin, Christina T.

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“…Despite their ubiquity in household contexts in central Petén during this period, these same figurines bridged personal and monumental time. As I have argued elsewhere (Halperin 2014a, 2014b), many of the figurines depicted the lively public affairs of state pomp and ceremony, which likely included kingly accession ceremonies, period-ending events, and public festivities. In this sense, figurines brought monumental time and the ideologies of the state into the everyday household domains of work, ritual, entertainment, and play.…”

Section: Personal and Monumental Timementioning

confidence: 92%

TEMPORALITIES OF LATE CLASSIC TO POSTCLASSIC (ca. AD 600–1521) MAYA FIGURINES FROM CENTRAL PETÉN, GUATEMALA

Halperin¹

2017

Latin Am. antiq.

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Maya figurine styles from the Late Classic to Postclassic periods (ca. AD 600–1521) from central Petén, Guatemala undergo an abrupt change at the Terminal Classic-Postclassic transition (ca. AD 830–1000). Despite the intimate association of figurines with households, such shifts parallel those on stone monuments and decorated vessels, underscoring the role of figurines in processes of political upheaval. Documenting figurine chronologies over broad periods of time, however, tells us little about how people in the past may have experienced temporal changes. Thus, in concert with a focus on figurine chronologies, this article explores the temporalities of figurines as manifested through their discard, the simultaneous experience of old and new figurine styles, and tensions between personal and monumental time.

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Section: Personal and Monumental Timementioning

confidence: 92%

TEMPORALITIES OF LATE CLASSIC TO POSTCLASSIC (ca. AD 600–1521) MAYA FIGURINES FROM CENTRAL PETÉN, GUATEMALA

Halperin¹

2017

Latin Am. antiq.

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“…Place is not an objective space but one that is socially configured for human activities. Places ‘do not exist a priori but are produced by ongoing human social practices and experiences with the material world’ (Halperin, 2014: 111). Thus, place is not only a physical setting but can be a product of imagination as well.…”

Section: Grounding the Transnational: Place As A Theoretical Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We can see people move within a place, and the place would not be that specific place without the movement. Halperin, when studying circulation as placemaking, mentioned the fact that sacred Australian Aboriginal places ‘are embodied by both ritual practitioners who travel along the ritual pathways and nonritual practitioners whose bodily movements must actively avoid such pathways and locales’ (Halperin, 2014: 112). Similarly, Europe and the United States (US), where I respectively followed a master’s degree program and a PhD program, are places through the ways they attract, allow and restrict movements.…”

Section: Grounding the Transnational: Place As A Theoretical Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grounding the transnational: A Vietnamese scholar’s autoethnography

Phung

2020

Research in Comparative and International Education

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Departing from the dominant trend of favoring flexibility, flattened relations, and deterritorialization in featuring the transnational, this autoethnographic inquiry theorizes and exemplifies how the gravity of place may give rise to the evolvement of scholarship in the context of transnational mobility. I examine my own career trajectory to demonstrate how groundedness results from the dynamics between displacement and emplacement. While recounting my experience of moving back and forth between Western universities and my home institution in Vietnam, I explore issues such as the nation building framework for transnational mobility, scholarly self-formation, and community cultivation. The study centers a mode of emplacement termed ‘existential commitment’. It calls attention to the cultivation of a small, immediate scholarly community as a form of scholarship in the global periphery. The emphasis is on how the transnational can be grounded in local academic practices that address the world at multiple layers and scales.

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“…As Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban () suggest, elite power is created not simply by acquiring or even mobilizing resources but, instead, by manipulating the networks that articulate people, places, and things. Christina Halperin () highlights this relational nature of Classic Maya politics by mapping the circulation of polychrome vessels and figurines. Christopher Rodning () offers a complementary view that describes how the circulation of objects, particularly calumet pipes, was tied to macroregional ceremonial and exchange patterns in the eastern United States that predated but shaped Native American responses to European contact.…”

Section: The Anthropology Of Objects Bodies and Identities In Archamentioning

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Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

Morehart

2015

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

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Research from the past year demonstrates archaeologists' diverse contributions to the anthropological study of human experience and social relationships in time and space. I divide literature published from late 2013 to late 2014 into five themes. First, archaeological research on space focuses on the persistence and materiality of landscapes, the creation and dynamics of communities and cities, and the mobility and migration of people.Second, studies of climate change and environmental interaction stress that organizational relationships and their long-term legacies are fundamental to ecological sustainability. Third, archaeologists offer anthropology the ability to contextualize the causes and the manifestations of violence and conflict through longitudinal cases studies and material analysis. Fourth, work on objects, bodies, and identity emphasizes that social subjectivities are not only variable but are historically connected to material worlds. Finally, fifth, archaeologists engaged with the present offer critical understandings of heritage policies and promote an activism that seeks more ethical practices with descendent communities and within the discipline itself. Despite differences, the recent literature reveals archaeologists' contributions to these significant anthropological topics by studying long-term, historical legacies and the materiality of human relationships. [archaeology, anthropology, materiality, history, year in review] RESUMEN Investigación del año pasado demuestra contribuciones diversas de los arqueólogos al estudio antropológico de la experiencias humana y las relaciones sociales en tiempo y espacio. Divido la literatura publicada desde finales del 2013 a finales del 2014 en cinco temas. Primero, la investigación arqueológica sobre espacio se enfoca en la persistencia y materialidad de los paisajes, la creación y dinámica de comunidades y ciudades, y la movilidad y migración de personas. Segundo, estudios de cambio climático e interacción ambiental enfatizan que las relaciones organizacionales y sus legados de largo plazo son fundamentales para la sostenibilidad ecológica.Tercero, arqueólogos le ofrecen a la antropología la habilidad de contextualizar las causas y las manifestaciones de la violencia y el conflicto a través de estudios de caso longitudinales y análisis material. Cuarto, trabajos sobre objetos, cuerpos, e identidad enfatizan que las subjetividades sociales no son solamente variables, sino que están históricamente conectadas a los mundos materiales. Finalmente, quinto, arqueólogos comprometidos con el presente ofrecen entendimientos críticos de las políticas hereditarias y promueven un activismo que busca prácticas máséticas con comunidades de descendientes y dentro de la disciplina en sí misma. A pesar de las diferencias, la reciente literatura revela las contribuciones de los arqueólogos a estos temas antropológicos significativos al estudiar legados históricos de largo plazo y la materialidad de las relaciones humanas. [arqueología, antropología, materialidad, hi...

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Circulation as Placemaking: Late Classic Maya Polities and Portable Objects

Cited by 19 publications

References 42 publications

TEMPORALITIES OF LATE CLASSIC TO POSTCLASSIC (ca. AD 600–1521) MAYA FIGURINES FROM CENTRAL PETÉN, GUATEMALA

TEMPORALITIES OF LATE CLASSIC TO POSTCLASSIC (ca. AD 600–1521) MAYA FIGURINES FROM CENTRAL PETÉN, GUATEMALA

Grounding the transnational: A Vietnamese scholar’s autoethnography

Archaeologies of the Past and in the Present in 2014: Materialities of Human History

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