Lost in Mayaland

Cocom, Juan Castillo

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“…In the realm of study called Maya archaeology, there has been limited acknowledgment of or reckoning with the processes of colonialism and their contributions to disciplinary roots and research methods (for notable exceptions, see the work of Indigenous scholars, including A. Cojtí Ren, 2006; I. Cojtí Ren, 2010; Cuxil, 2010; see also Clark and Anderson, 2015; Henderson and Hudson, 2015; Joyce, 2008; Pezzarossi, 2020). More frequently, researchers working in adjacent regions and subfields have drawn attention to problematic disciplinary histories and their continuing influence on archaeological and heritage discourses and practice (e.g., Armstrong‐Fumero, 2018; Breglia, 2006; Browman, 2011; Castañeda, 1996; Castillo Cocom, 2004; Euraque, 1998; Evans, 2004; Montejo, 2005; Palacios, 2012; Wainwright, 2008). Accounts of the past generated by archaeologists include discourses that assume incommensurability or static continuity between ancient and contemporary Indigenous peoples of the region (McAnany and Gallareta Negrón, 2010; Pezzarossi, 2020; Pyburn, 2006; Zimmermann et al., 2020, 664).…”

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Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico

Dedrick

McAnany

Alpuche

2023

American Anthropologist

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Archaeologists from the United States working in what is referred to as the Maya area have paid insufficient attention to the structural violence of colonial rule and how their own narratives may perpetuate it. This article addresses the pervasive effects of colonial violence on farming communities in Yucatán, Mexico, which resulted in the undercutting of sustainable livelihoods and the imposition of hierarchies leading to systemic racism. The interpretation of archaeological and historical evidence can reveal the challenges that colonialism and its consequences posed for Indigenous peoples in their daily lives and also distinguish tactics that they used to achieve well-being. Following an account of colonial policies and their outcomes, we demonstrate how closely linked archaeological practice has been with colonial and imperial interests in Yucatán and suggest how archaeologists can reckon with the violence of colonialism and its resonances in archaeology today.

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Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico

Dedrick

McAnany

Alpuche

2023

American Anthropologist

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Translocalidad, globalización y regionalismo: cómo entender la gastronomía regional yucateca

Díaz

Igor²

2017

Anales de Antropología

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Los estudios sobre cultura culinaria y gastronómica han manifestado una tendencia a enfocar el surgimiento e instauración de las cocinas nacionales. Este artículo busca dirigir la mirada reflexiva hacia el análisis de las cocinas regionales para entender las formas en las que estas se constituyen e instituyen durante procesos translocales. Hasta recientemente, en su mayoría, los análisis sociales y culturales sobre procesos globales han privilegiado el examen de relaciones dicotómicas entre lo global y lo local: lo "local" como subordinado o reactivo a lo "global" y lo "global" como homogeneizante de localidades pasivas. La noción de translocalidad que aquí se propone busca romper con esas dicotomías a partir del reconocimiento de relaciones horizontales y transversales entre prácticas culturales localizadas en sociedades subordinadas. Tomando el caso de la gastronomía yucateca, se examinan las relaciones históricas y laterales entre la sociedad yucateca y otras sociedades del Caribe, Norteamárica y Europa que han posibilitado la constitución e institución de una práctica gastronómica cultural regional distinta de aquella nacional. Se propone que la explicación de las gastronomías regionales supera la oposición dicotómica nación-región al tomar en cuenta relaciones transversales entre sociedades que al movilizar personas, tecnologías y prácticas culturales permiten la generación de códigos gastronómicos distintivos.

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“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”

Chua¹

2022

Current Anthropology

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Lost in Mayaland

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Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico

Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico

Translocalidad, globalización y regionalismo: cómo entender la gastronomía regional yucateca

“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”

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