Collective Remembering in Archaeology: a Relational Approach to Ancient Maya Memory

Mixter, David

doi:10.1007/s10816-017-9320-8

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“…In fact, many abandoned Preclassic and Classic period centres became pilgrimage destinations (Andres & Pyburn 2004;Brown 2011;Hansen et al 2008;Robin et al 2012). Where populations dwelled amongst the monumental ruins, they continued to interact with the past on a daily basis (Halperin 2014;Lamoureux-St-Hilaire et al 2015;Mixter 2017a;Navarro-Farr 2016). Perhaps because of their association with transcendent cosmological concepts, triadic pyramid groups in particular remained places of reverence (Halperin 2014).…”

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“…While some supported rejuvenated royal lineages freed from the bonds of failing Classic period hegemons (Inomata & Triadan 2013; Źrałka & Hermes 2012), other centres built new institutions anchored in cultural connections to the more stable northern Maya Lowlands (Harrison-Buck 2007; Masson & Mock 2004; McAnany 2012). Like Actuncan, other centres likely followed more innovative paths heavily impacted by local historical contingencies (Lamoureux-St-Hilaire et al 2015; Mixter 2017a; Schwarz 2009). Importantly, reorganization strategies were successful when communities bought in to new institutions and remained intact.…”

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“…These renovations appear to have reified the major processional route established during the Preclassic period. However, these activities presumably took place under the aegis of Xunantunich and were likely intended to emphasize the power of the noble vassal inhabiting Group 8, perhaps as part of an effort to strengthen Xunantunich's claim over Actuncan's earlier history (Ashmore 1998; Mixter 2017a).…”

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“…The lack of investment in public architecture during the second half of the Early Classic period likely reflects the move away from local rule, while the select reoccupation of ritual and administrative spaces during the Late Classic period reflects the site's utilization as a secondary centre during Xunantunich's apogee. Importantly, many of the site's urban residences remained occupied continuously, and their inhabitants witnessed Actuncan's fluctuating role in the local political geography (Mixter 2017a; Mixter et al 2014).…”

Section: Removing the Divine From Rule—actuncan's Changing Site Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Mixter¹

2019

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To remain in place in the immediate aftermath of the ninth-century Maya collapse, Maya groups employed various resilient strategies. In the absence of divine rulers, groups needed to renegotiate their forms of political authority and to reconsider the legitimizing role of religious institutions. This kind of negotiation happened first at the local level, where individual communities developed varied political and ideological solutions. At the community of Actuncan, located in the lower Mopan River valley of Belize, reorganization took place within the remains of a monumental urban centre built 1000 years before by the site's early rulers. I report on the changing configuration and use of Actuncan's urban landscape during the process of reorganization. These modifications included the construction of a new centre for political gatherings, the dismantling of old administrative buildings constructed by holy lords and the reuse of the site's oldest ritual space. These developments split the city into distinct civic and ritual zones, paralleling the adoption of a new shared rule divorced from cosmological underpinnings. This case study provides an example of how broader societal resilience relies on adaptation at the local level.

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2019

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“…; Schwartz ). Many archaeologists in 2017 explored alternate concepts of time and the role of memory in past societies (Hamilakis ; Haskell and Stawski ; Mixter ; Mixter and Henry ; Morehart ; Overholtzer and Bolnick ; Pool and Loughlin ; Sinamai ; Van Dyke ; VanValkenburgh ; Yao ).…”

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Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

Lewis

2018

American Anthropologist

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These annual review essays focus on what we as archaeologists are doing year by year. Many themes continue on from review to review, waxing and waning, not unlike the bell curves of a traditional pottery seriation.Each year, themes are highlighted and presented in varied ways according to the orientation and aims of the reviewer. All do a masterful job of curating the vast range of what archaeologists were, in each annual period, currently producing. My review follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, summarizing an array of new and exciting research, and describing how agendas presented in 2017 cluster around sets of related questions and aims. It will also look at the growing literature that asks, in one way or another, fundamental questions about what archaeology really is and why we pursue it. In this time when the value of academic pursuits and scientific perspectives are being highly scrutinized in politics and popular culture, archaeologists are faced with the uncomfortable question of "What is it, really, that we should be doing?" [archaeology, current issues, public archaeology, digital archaeology] RESUMEN Estos ensayos de revisión anual se enfocan en lo que como arqueólogos estamos haciendo año tras año. Muchos temas continúan de revisión en revisión, creciendo o menguando, no muy diferente de las curvas en forma de campana de la seriación de la cerámica tradicional. Cada año, temas son enfatizados y presentados de varias maneras de acuerdo a la orientación y metas del crítico. Todos hacen un trabajo magistral de organizar un rango vasto de lo que los arqueólogos estaban, en cada período anual, realmente produciendo. Mi revisión sigue los pasos de sus predecesores, resumiendo una colección de nueva y emocionante investigación, y describiendo cómo las agendas presentadas en el 2017 se agrupan alrededor de juegos de cuestiones y metas relacionadas.También examina la creciente literatura que pregunta, de una manera u otra, cuestiones fundamentales acerca de lo que la arqueología realmente es y por qué nos dedicamos a ella. En este tiempo cuando el valor de los empeños académicos y las perspectivas científicas están siendo altamente escrutados en política y cultura popular, los arqueólogos se enfrentan a la pregunta incomoda de "¿Qué es lo que realmente deberíamos estar haciendo?"[arqueología, cuestiones actuales, arqueología pública, arqueología digital] ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTATION?While the theme of what such a diverse discipline should be subtly undergirds much of the literature, a number of 2017 articles, each in a very different way, directly address the very nature of what archaeology is and why we practice it. In the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Assaf Nativ (2017, 55) asks us to reconsider our notions of the

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Durable Stones, Mutable Pasts: Bundled Memory in the Alsatian Community of Castroville, Texas

Dyke

2017

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Collective Remembering in Archaeology: a Relational Approach to Ancient Maya Memory

Cited by 16 publications

References 85 publications

Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

Durable Stones, Mutable Pasts: Bundled Memory in the Alsatian Community of Castroville, Texas

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