Inconspicuous Consumption: Non-Display Goods and Identity Formation

Smith, Mónica L.

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“…Al igual que todas las categorías tipológicas, "el urbanismo agrario de baja densidad" no está exento de defectos. Sin embargo, al considerar que "los suburbios no pueden ser ignorados, y no pueden ser vistos como algo separado de la zona urbana central simplemente en términos de escala..." (Fletcher, 2009: 11), Fletcher elude la dicotomía urbana/rural, haciendo que las relaciones funcionales unan a las poblaciones urbanas y periféricas con instituciones que conforman comunidades sociales y políticas como el aspecto central de la investigación (Smith, 2003). En última instancia, la organización sociopolítica, religiosa y económica de las ciudades mayas clásicas se formó por la organización y las acciones de sus residentes.…”

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El urbanismo de baja densidad en las Tierras Bajas Mayas: El caso de El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala

Marken

Ricker

Rivas³

et al. 2019

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Como ejemplos clave del urbanismo en el Nuevo Mundo indígena, las ciudades mayas son temas de gran trascendencia antropológica. A pesar de su importancia comparativa, durante gran parte del siglo veinte los centros mayas del Clásico (ca. 250-950 d.C.) han sido vistos como “no-ciudades”, capitales de entidades complejas, pero marcadas por la ausencia de una densidad característica de lugares puramente urbanos. Fletcher propuso que el urbanismo maya corresponde a un tipo urbano que denomina “urbanismo agrario de baja-densidad”; aunque, como todas las categorías tipológicas, también tiene debilidades. Este artículo presenta los resultados de más de diez años de investigación de la ciudad maya clásica de El Perú-Waka’, en Guatemala, con el fin de evaluar el modelo de Fletcher en el área maya. Los datos procedentes de Waka’ sugieren que, a pesar de que en general el modelo de Fletcher es ampliamente aplicable a las Tierras Bajas, es necesario volver a examinar diversos supuestos sobre las ciudades mayas.

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El urbanismo de baja densidad en las Tierras Bajas Mayas: El caso de El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala

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“…The paradoxical relationship between individualism and product anonymity is much debated in contemporary cultural theory (e.g. Baudrillard 2002;Smith 2007;Miller 2009;Bevan & Wengrow 2010); in addition, since the 1990s, Jacques Lacan's idea of interpassivity has taken hold as one way of analysing the situation. This concept refers to the arrangement in which subjects experience emotions through the external other while this delegation act simultaneously becomes a defence against the very same experience.…”

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Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Kannike¹,

Laviolette²

2013

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Aims & scopeThe Approaches to Culture Theory book series focuses on various aspects of analysis, modelling, and theoretical understanding of culture. Culture theory as a set of complementary theories is seen to include and combine the approaches of different sciences, among them semiotics of culture, archaeology, environmental history, ethnology, cultural ecology, cultural and social anthropology, human geography, sociology and the psychology of culture, folklore, media and communication studies. Series editorsKalevi Kull Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Patrick Laviolette Soft objectsThe natural order is decay: the home as an ephemeral art project . Notes on editors and contributorsMaria Cristache (Maria.Cristache@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) completed a Master's degree in sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Hungary. She is currently a doctoral student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Her research interests include material culture, post-socialism, sociology and the anthropology of consumption, including patterns of taste and consumption of domestic objects in communist and post-communist Romania.Carlo A. Cubero (carlo.cubero@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. His research focuses on ethnographic filmmaking methodology, migration, transnationalism and post-colonial identities.Brigitte Glaser (Brigitte.Glaser@phil.uni-goettingen.de) is professor of English literature and cultural studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. She has published two monographs, one on 18th-century fiction and the other on 17th-century autobiographical writing. During the last few years her research focus and publications have been on colonial and postcolonial literature as well as transnational writing. A co-edited volume of essays The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism appeared in 2010.Remo Gramigna (gramigna@ut.ee) is a doctoral student in semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He gained a Master's degree in science of communication at Rome's Sapienza University with a dissertation entitled Culture Jamming: Phenomenology of Creative Destruction (2006). He completed a second Master's degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu with a thesis entitled Augustine on Lying: A Semiotic Analysis (2011). His main research area is the semiotics of lying and deception.Visa Immonen (visa.immonen@helsinki.fi) is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, and adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Turku, Finland. He is an archaeologist specialising in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. Meripeni Ngully (meripeni55@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of History, Dimapur Government College, India. She is a doctoral candida...

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“…Anthropomorphic figurines, recovered in great numbers from domestic contexts, are ideal evidence with which to document cultural conventions and human self-perception. Whereas objects used in public contexts often have political functions, those used and disposed of in domestic contextsthose associated with household and/or private behavior-are most useful in exploring cultural identity (Smith 2007). Richard Lesure (2005: 247) observes that Formative period Mesoamerican figurine "types have a coherence suggestive of rigid conventionality" and Rosemary Joyce (2000) argues that they provided (and created?)…”

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Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico

Rosenswig

2011

J Archaeol Method Theory

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In this paper, I ask why the insights of classical (i.e., materialist) Marxism are not more commonly used by archaeologists of recent academic generations. With evidence from the Soconusco region of Mexico, I explore the relationship between the economic base and political superstructure of the region's inhabitants as well as evidence for the transformation from a kin-ordered to a tributary mode of production. Major esthetic and political transformations occurred across the region when naturalistic standards were replaced by abstract Olmec-style representation beginning approximately 1,

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Inconspicuous Consumption: Non-Display Goods and Identity Formation

Cited by 31 publications

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El urbanismo de baja densidad en las Tierras Bajas Mayas: El caso de El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala

El urbanismo de baja densidad en las Tierras Bajas Mayas: El caso de El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico

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