Modeling Post–AD 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region

Simpson, Erik

doi:10.5876/9781607324737.c015

Exploring Cause and Explanation: Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest 2016

DOI: 10.5876/9781607324737.c015

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Modeling Post–AD 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region

Erik Simpson¹

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Maya Pilgrimage, Migration, and Community Connectivity at Ritual Landscapes at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico

Palka

2023

Latin Am. antiq.

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Anthropologists have demonstrated that having information about new settlements is crucial for drawing migrants. Pilgrimage to ritual landscapes and their shrines allows people, including Maya societies, to explore places where they can settle. They then establish or augment settlements around the landscape shrines, which explains the locations and growth of some centers. Migrants continue to make pilgrimages to shrines, such as sacred mountains, near their receiving settlements to enhance community cohesion through ritual contact with spiritual forces. In this article, I show that pilgrimage is an important element in the establishment of select migrant settlements and their community identity. I focus on Maya and Mesoamerican cultures, particularly at Mensabak in Chiapas, Mexico, and on supporting archaeological, historical, and ethnographic information. I conclude that Maya perceptions of movement, connectivity, and transformation in their world are linked to pilgrimage, migration, and community formation. Importantly, pilgrimage provides a religious variable, in addition to better-known economic, political, or demographic factors, to consider in migration.

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Maya Pilgrimage, Migration, and Community Connectivity at Ritual Landscapes at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico

Palka

2023

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Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina

Borck

Simpson

2017

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Archaeological research on the Gallina (AD 1100-1300) inhabitants of the region west of the Rio Chama and centered on the Llaves valley has focused on constructing a culture history and examining functional characteristics of artifacts and architecture. Limited research has attempted to understand who the residents of the Gallina heartland were. In this article, using new findings and historical contexts, we argue that the Gallina people had a complicated identity forged around resistance and a deep connection to their past. To better understand them we need to move past previous binary categories used to describe them and perceive them not as isolated or connected, aggressors or victims, traditionalists or innovators, but as an intersectional mix of these axes of identity. La investigación arqueológica sobre los habitantes Gallina (1100-1300 d. C.) de la región oeste del Río Chama, focalizada en el valle de Llaves, se orientó en la construcción de una historia cultural y el análisis de las características funcionales de los artefactos y la arquitectura. De hecho, han sido escasas las investigaciones que han intentado entender quiénes eran los residentes del Gallina. En este artículo, utilizando nuevos hallazgos y contextos históricos, argumentamos que los grupos Gallina tuvieron una identidad compleja, forjada en torno a la resistencia y a una profunda conexión con su historia. Asimismo, para entenderlas necesitamos movernos más allá de las tradicionales categorías binarias usadas para interpretarlos y percibirlos como aislados o conectados, violentos o víctimas, tradicionalistas o inventores, y en cambio, como una mezcla que abarca todos estos ejes de identidad.

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Connected and Isolated: A Discussion About Gallina Archaeology with no Resolutions

Borck

2017

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Modeling Post–AD 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region

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Maya Pilgrimage, Migration, and Community Connectivity at Ritual Landscapes at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico

Maya Pilgrimage, Migration, and Community Connectivity at Ritual Landscapes at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico

Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina

Connected and Isolated: A Discussion About Gallina Archaeology with no Resolutions

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