Contact and Missionization at Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala

Pugh, Timothy W.; Sánchez, José Rómulo; Shiratori, Yuko

doi:10.1179/0093469011z.0000000001

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“…In addition, the church structure likely changed during its use-life and the area with more complex stratigraphy may have been used over a longer period of time. The burials in the area of the multiple floors generally included multiple individuals, while those outside this area tended to include only one, supporting the idea that the several floors represent repeated mortuary sealings in the oldest portion of the church (Pugh and Sánchez Polo 2012).…”

Section: The San Bernabé Churchmentioning

confidence: 73%

Technologies of Domination at Mission San Bernabé, Petén, Guatemala

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The Spaniards established several congregaciones or missions in central Petén, Guatemala, shortly after the 1697 conquest of the region to help control local indigenous populations. Recent investigations at the church and community of Mission San Bernabé revealed details about the entangled relations of Mayas and Spaniards. Foucault's four technologies of domination help explicate these power relations as they were played out in the small settlement and the church at its center. Material culture differed in many ways from that of the pre-conquest Itzas, but was clearly predominantly “Maya.” Spanish-style goods and burial patterns were found as were hybrid ceramic wares, the Spanish-style artifacts most common in an elite residence, reflecting that Maya elite acted as brokers with the Spaniards. The occupants also incorporated Spanish domesticates into their diets. Some changes likely resulted from various ethnic groups residing in the same settlement, but others were the product of indigenous adaptations to the situation of contact. Nevertheless, it is clear that the mission anchored a number of strategies of domination that subdued the occupants of San Bernabé.

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Section: The San Bernabé Churchmentioning

confidence: 73%

Technologies of Domination at Mission San Bernabé, Petén, Guatemala

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“…This work builds on previous test-pitting research conducted in North-central Tayasal by the University of Pennsylvania (Chase 1983, 659-79) and is informed by both test-pitting and horizontal excavations from other sectors of the site (Chase 1983;Cowgill 1963;Pugh et al 2012;Ramírez Baldizón 2004). The North-central Tayasal Archaeological Project excavations sampled the entire spectrum of architectural group sizes and represent a 32 per cent sample coverage of the total identified structures in the 300 × 500 m zone (n = 62) ( Fig.…”

Section: Ruins From the North-central Sector Of Tayasalmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…José Rómulo Sánchez (2011), and Lic. Carlos Sánchez Góngora (2012) (Pugh et al 2012). Investigations focused on an approximately 300 × 500 m zone of the North-central sector of Tayasal to investigate the Terminal to Postclassic transition, complementing the goals of Tayasal Archaeological Project, which focused primarily on Contact period settlement and missionary activities at the site.…”

Section: Ruins From the North-central Sector Of Tayasalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although occupation continued at the site of Tayasal during the Postclassic and even Colonial periods (concentrating along the coastal edges of the peninsula and the Main Group) (Chase 1983;Pugh et al 2012), the North-central residential neighbourhood was largely abandoned at the end of the Terminal Classic period. This formerly vibrant commoner neighbourhood was likely converted into milpa (swidden agricultural plots) and/or a wilderness zone for hunting and collecting wood and medicinal plants by later peoples.…”

Section: Cerro Mo' As Part Of Agricultural or Wilderness Zonesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ruins in Pre-Columbian Maya Urban Landscapes

Halperin¹

2014

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There is a growing recognition that ancient cultures actively reworked their own pasts (and thus their futures) by reusing and modifying relics and ruined buildings. In the Maya area, architectural ruins of the Pre-Columbian past are often considered as isolated from major centres or as subsumed by new architectural constructions. In contrast, this article examines recent survey and excavations from the North-central sector of Tayasal, Guatemala, where I document the ways in which common peoples from a Terminal Classic (c. ad 800–900/950) neighbourhood lived amongst the ruins of a Late Preclassic monumental past (c. 300 bc–ad 300). Conceptions of such ruins are explored through both (1) a long-term, structural pattern of temple-pyramids seen as metaphors of mountains, and (2) the lens of everyday practices, in which the social lives of common people and ruins become entangled through quotidian activities. Taken together, the article highlights the dynamism of enduring structural patterns. These patterns both challenge dualistic divides of wilderness and urban settings and reveal ancient Maya urban landscapes as places of mixed temporalities.

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“…Recent work at Tayasal (Pugh et al . 2012), in the central Petén lakes region, focuses on mission settlements established after the Spanish conquests of the Itzaj and Kowoj Maya in central Petén, Guatemala, in 1697 (Figure 1). In the early 1700s, Spanish conquerors and clergy formed the small visita mission settlements of San Bernabé and San Miguel on the Tayasal peninsula.…”

Section: Conquered Zonementioning

confidence: 99%