Foreigners Among Us: Alterity and the Making of Ancient Maya Societies

Author:   Christina Halperin (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   214
Publication Date:   14 September 2023
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Author:   Christina Halperin (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.394kg
ISBN:  

9781032263205


ISBN 10:   1032263202
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   14 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Tropes of the Foreigner: From Famous Royals to Humble Migrants, Chapter 3 Captive Performances: Spectacles and the Everyday, Chapter 4 Cuisines and the Relational Making of People, Chapter 5 Pilgrimages to Foreign Places and the Acts of Becoming, Chapter 6 Looking In From Afar: Representations of Mayas, Chapter 7 Conclusion, References.

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Christina T. Halperin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines ancient Maya politics from the perspectives of households, gender, materiality, and everyday life. Halperin has conducted archaeological field investigations in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize since 1997. She has published extensively on topics such as ceramic figurines, textiles, the production and circulation of polychrome pottery, architecture, and landscape archaeology. Halperin is author or editor of Vernacular Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas (2017), Maya Figurines: Intersections between State and Household (2014) and Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena (2009).

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