Classic Maya Concepts of the Royal Court

Reents-Budet, Dorie

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“…This makes it hard to explore whether Late Classic vases depict local or regional dress. Reents-Budet and Bishop (2003;Reents-Budet et al 1994;Reents-Budet et al 2000) attempt to correct this lack through the Maya Ceramics Project. However, not enough of my sample overlaps theirs to address regional issues.…”

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Hats and titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court

Cheek

2024

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The Maya used dress to help them structure social interaction. Taking a behavioral chain and practice approach, I define dress elements of male courtiers and how they were combined into outfits during the daily practices of dressing and attending court. I identify two groups of headgear, Standard and Special, among courtiers on vases showing historical interaction among humans. Each vase is considered commemorative and must communicate to an audience. I identified six Standard hat types that were widespread in the Maya Lowlands. The distribution implies a basic set of recognizable roles that provided the political-religious structure of the typical Maya court, perhaps as early as the Late Preclassic period. Four of the hat types are connected to glyphic titles. Each titleholder's position in the vase's visual space implies a hierarchy of roles. The results support my hypothesis that dress does identify social roles in the Maya court.

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Hats and titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court

Cheek

2024

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“…Entre as elites mesoamericanas, as tradições cerâmicas possuíam uma função que ia além da utilitária: carregavam significados simbólicos importantes. As cerâmicas em estilos estrangeiros enviavam mensagens de afiliações políticas e econômicas que eram reconhecíveis por emissores e destinatários, e quanto mais reconhecível o estilo, maior valor social e eficácia política possuía o objeto (Reents-Budet, 1994). Desse modo, podemos interpretar as vasilhas cilíndricas trípodes como objetos que denotam a identificação de laços políticos entre as elites de Kaminaljuyu e Teotihuacan.…”

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De Ciclos De Vida a Itinerários: As Vasilhas Cilíndricas Trípodes De Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala

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2022

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Este artigo busca apresentar as trajetórias das vasi- lhas cilíndricas trípodes recuperadas durante as escavações dos Montículos A e B em Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. Partimos da metáfora presente na exposição Ciclos de Vida en Kaminaljuyu para refletir sobre teorias e métodos acerca da circulação das coisas em diferentes temporalidades, lugares e contextos his- tóricos. Nos valemos do conceito de itinerário dos objetos, ela- borado por Rosemary Joyce e Susan Gillespie, para refazer as trajetórias dessas vasilhas ao longo do tempo. Em contextos funerários no passado pré-hispânico, observamos seu uso ritual e simbólico. Do mesmo modo, buscamos perceber como esses objetos são ressignificados a partir da recuperação arqueológica e posterior musealização. Busca-se demonstrar o papel media- dor dos artefatos ao longo do tempo.

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“…Actuncan North features several range structures, including Structures 12, 19a, 31, and 39, which likely served as venues for a variety of functions related to polity administration. Research on range structures from across the Maya Lowlands indicates that activities in these spaces include audiences and meetings hosted by rulers and elite administrators, the storage of tribute and ritual regalia and the production of specialized elite crafts (Inomata & Triadan 2000; LeCount et al 2016; Reents-Budet 2001; Terry et al 2004). Although occasionally implicated in preparations for rituals, these spaces were most commonly dedicated to the political and managerial roles of rulers and their supporting bureaucracy, reflecting the practical rather than divine role of Maya rulers.…”

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Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Mixter¹

2019

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To remain in place in the immediate aftermath of the ninth-century Maya collapse, Maya groups employed various resilient strategies. In the absence of divine rulers, groups needed to renegotiate their forms of political authority and to reconsider the legitimizing role of religious institutions. This kind of negotiation happened first at the local level, where individual communities developed varied political and ideological solutions. At the community of Actuncan, located in the lower Mopan River valley of Belize, reorganization took place within the remains of a monumental urban centre built 1000 years before by the site's early rulers. I report on the changing configuration and use of Actuncan's urban landscape during the process of reorganization. These modifications included the construction of a new centre for political gatherings, the dismantling of old administrative buildings constructed by holy lords and the reuse of the site's oldest ritual space. These developments split the city into distinct civic and ritual zones, paralleling the adoption of a new shared rule divorced from cosmological underpinnings. This case study provides an example of how broader societal resilience relies on adaptation at the local level.

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Classic Maya Concepts of the Royal Court

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Hats and titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court

Hats and titles: Maya courtier dress and hierarchy in the late Classic Maya court

De Ciclos De Vida a Itinerários: As Vasilhas Cilíndricas Trípodes De Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala

Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

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