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The power of place: Political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The power of place: Political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture./
Author:	Tokovinine, Alexandre Andreevich.
Description:	383 p.
Notes:	Adviser: William L. Fash.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3312544
ISBN:	9780549613619

The power of place: Political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture.
Tokovinine, Alexandre Andreevich.

The power of place: Political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture. - 383 p.

Adviser: William L. Fash.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2008.

Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to landscape has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. My dissertation project explores Classic Maya political landscapes and seeks to understand the relation between place and identity in the written discourse. In addition, it establishes links between a text-based approach to Classic Maya political landscapes and the archaeological record. The findings of my research are based on two data sets: the data base of place names in Classic Maya inscriptions that incorporates full textual contexts of every toponym and the results of my archaeological and epigraphic fieldwork at the site of La Sufricaya, El Peten, Guatemala.

ISBN: 9780549613619Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

The power of place: Political landscape and identity in Classic Maya inscriptions, imagery, and architecture.
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520 $a Classic Maya political landscapes did not involve representations of territories. Most Classic Maya toponyms indexed discrete objects in space associated with the ch'e'n category indicating that these places were the dwellings of gods and ancestors. Classic Maya royal families were usually related to one or more ch'e'n place names---current locations of royal courts, but also places of origins in deep time. The underlying narratives and identities set some royal families apart and united others.
520 $a Many Classic Maya rulers were members of several geopolitical groups associated with specific geographical areas and political networks. Thirteen Divisions, Seven Divisions, and Twenty-eight Lords were the most widely mentioned collectivities. These groups constituted a kind of macro-regional landscape, but a landscape of social and not spatial entities.
520 $a Classic Maya inscriptions and images suggest that public ceremonies were the events where members of geopolitical communities were involved, when political identities were performed, experienced, and reiterated. The case of La Sufricaya reveals how these practices structured the spatial organization and the construction sequence of an emerging palace complex. Archaeological evidence at La Sufricaya points to the high level of interconnectedness between members of Classic Maya political landscapes. It also reveals that, in the absence of an established local community, the long-term success of a new political center largely depended on its geopolitical network.
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