The Only True People : Linking Maya Identities Past and Present

Beyyette, Bethany J.; LeCount, Lisa J.

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“…They were also dynamic places where new political centers emerged as a result of people moving from the metropolis. The idea of the external frontier is difficult to apply to the Maya area, since Maya polities were not necessarily more populous or more politically complex than their neighbors (Goldstein 1994;Schortman 1989;Schortman and Urban 1994;Stoner 2012), and since pre-Columbian Maya peoples never considered themselves as a singular cultural or political entity (Beyyette and LeCount 2017;Hutson 2009). Nonetheless, the interstitial zones between dominant Maya political formations could aptly be considered as internal frontiers (Iannone 2010).…”

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Introduction to the Special Section: Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries in the Maya World: Concepts and Theory

2020

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The Maya area has long been characterized as a mosaic of polities large and small, with cultural connections, linguistic dialects, ethnicities, and economic networks that shifted, expanded, and contracted over time. In this paper, we examine different ways of constructing boundaries. From physical demarcations in the landscape to habitual practices of interaction and affiliation, the lines that tied and divided were both unstable and multiple. We draw on definitions and theories from anthropology, history, and geography to review the concepts of borders, frontiers, and boundaries and their implications for the Maya area over the long term.

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