Faces of rulership in the Maya region / Patricia A. McAnany and Marilyn A. Masson, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dumbarton Oaks, host institution.

McAnany, Patricia Ann, editor.

Masson, Marilyn A., editor.

Conference Name:

Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium "Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region" (2021 : Online)

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Politics and government--History--Congresses.

Mayas.

Mayas--Kings and rulers--History--Congresses.

Maya art--Congresses.

Maya art.

Mayas--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mexico--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mexico.

Central America--Antiquities--Congresses.

Central America.

Physical Description:

x, 423 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, [2024]

Summary:

"Authority-whether royal, divine, material, fleeting, or enduring-varied across space and time in the Maya region, from its Preclassic dynastic origins through the colonial encounters of the sixteenth century. The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in the fifteen chapters of Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region. The contributors track rulership-beyond the prevalent paradigm of divine kingship-by considering the power of queens and unravelling codes embedded in art and public buildings. Through the close study of the agency of rulers who often sought to distinguish themselves from other dynasts, the contributors come to an enhanced understanding of the relational dynamics between rulers and subject peoples. Chapters reveal that rulership was perpetually challenged in ways that impacted adjacent institutions of nobles and literati. Applying concepts of rulership outlined in the book On Kings by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins, this volume brings Maya history and archaeology into the current, anthropological conversation about rulership in premodern times"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introducing the Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region / Patricia A. McAnany and Marilyn A. Masson

Rulers, Relatives, and Royal Courts: Excavating the Foundations of Classic Maya Alliance and Conflict / David Freidel

Whose Mountains? The Royal Body in the Built Environment / Alexandre Tokovinine, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Vilma Fialko

Masked Intentions: The Expression of Leadership in Northern Yucatán / William M. Ringle

Relatively Strange Rulers: Relational Politics in the Southern and Northern Maya Lowlands / Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Patricia A. McAnany

Strange and Familiar Queens at Maya Royal Courts / Traci Ardren

Patron Deities and Rulership across the Maya Lowlands / Joanne Baron

Temporalities of Royal Costume in the Maya Lowlands / Christina T. Halperin

Maya Gastropolitics: Strategies, Tactics, Entrapments / Shanti Morell-Hart

Le roi est mort, vive le roi. Examining the Rise, Apogee, and Decline of Maya Kingship in Central Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Christophe Helmke, Claire E. Ebert, and Julie A. Hoggarth

Jaina Figurines: Contexts and Social Linkages on the Western Side of the Maya World / Antonio Benavides C.

Postclassic- and Contact-Period Maya Rulership / Marilyn A. Masson

Denying the Rights of "Natural Lords": Maya Elite Struggles for Rewards and Recognition in Colonial Yucatán, 1550-1750 / John F. Chuchiak IV

Toward a New Framework for Comparing Ancient and Modern Forms of Social Domination (or, "Whatever Happened to the Archaic State?") / David Wengrow

Relationships of Command: From Sovereignty to Anarchy / Scott R. Hutson.

Notes:

"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies symposium "Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region," held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on March 25-27, 2021."--Title page verso.

"...COVID pandemic changed these plans and the symposium had to be moved into the virtual realm. Held on Zoom on March 25-27, 2021..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884025207

0884025209

OCLC:

1429575980

Publisher Number:

90101145817