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A l'instar de quelques archeologues, nous analysons synchroniquement et diachroniquement l'organisation interne du centre monumental d'une serie de cites mayas classiques, afin d'identifier la presence et le role de factions politiques distinctes et de modeliser les histoires politiques de ces cites. Sur la base des composantes qui segmentent les centres monumentaux, nous tentons de comprendre comment ces composantes refletent l'existence de segments sociaux, et comment elles s'articulaient a la structure politique locale a travers les relations spatiales et les modalites d'acces, de rassemblement et de circulation que l'architecture met en forme. Recemment, les recherches sur la cour royale maya classique ont conduit a reconnaitre le caractere politique de la maison du roi . Les complexes residentiels elitaires, une fois fouilles, revelent avoir abrite des activites plus ou moins communautaires. De maniere reciproque, des groupes d'edifices monumentaux que l'on concevait comme des centres civico-ceremoniels secondaires ont ete compris comme etant des groupes residentiels de l'elite, ou avaient donc lieu des activites domestiques, mais aussi ceremonielles au sens religieux et social. Ces progres notables concernant la comprehension des cites mayas obligent a considerer avec plus d'attention la difference public/prive entre fonctions collectives et residentielles dans les espaces construits. L'articulation spatiale et architecturale entre ces categories fondamentales nous permet de mieux comprendre divers modes de fonctionnement sociopolitique dans les cites mayas et d'analyser diachroniquement les sequences de construction, fournissant des cles pour modeliser les relations entre factions politiques, afin de restituer la vie politique des cites par une autre approche que celle de l'epigraphie. RELATION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PLACES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MAYA LOWLANDS CITIES FROM PRECLASSIC TO TERMINAL CLASSIC Following the lead of a few archaeologists, we synchronically and diachronically explore the layout of monumental epicenters in a body of selected Classic Maya cities, in an attempt to elucidate the presence and role of distinct political factions and to modelize the political history of those cities. Focusing spatial segments defined in those monumental epicenters of Maya cities, we aim at understanding how such social segments corresponded to distinct entities spatially circumscribed and how they were articulated to the political structure, exploring architecture, the spatial relations and the access modes .. In recent years, attention has focused upon the royal court in Classic Maya realms. This, in turn, led to recognize the importance of kingly houses in the political sphere. When excavated, residential compounds were shown to have sheltered plainly collective activities. Conversely, groups of monumental buildings formerly labeled 'secondary civic-ceremonial centers' have been reinterpreted as residential complexes of local elites. Such progress in data elucidation requires that we tackle the subtle distinction between residential and collective functions in private and public built spaces. The spatial articulation between both basically functional units leads us to discuss the various sociopolitical aspects of Maya societies and the diachronic analysis of construction sequences gives us some clues to modelize the relationships between political factions and their strategies, suggesting 'cities biographies', helping to restitute their political history independently of the epigraphic information provided by glyphic inscriptions decipherment.

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Damien Bazy

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