Assessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in
ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative
component of identity, Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of
foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of
Pre-Columbian Maya and questions not only who these foreigners
might have been but who were making such designations of difference
in the first place. Drawing from identity studies, standpoint
theory, and ideas on alterity, Foreigners Among Us highlights the
diverse ways being foreign was constituted, imitated, and marked
– from quotidian practices of making corn tortillas to ceremonial
acts between king and captive and their memorialization in scenes
on sculpted stone monuments. Rather than treat the foreign as
axiomatically determined by geographical distance or fixed at
birth, the book considers the foreign as much performed as
inherited. It examines practices of captivity, cuisine, body
ornamentation and dress, diasporic objects, relationships with
deities, migration, and pilgrimage. The book focuses, in
particular, on diverse peoples in the Maya area during the Classic
and Postclassic periods, but also necessarily peers into contacts,
engagements and relations throughout Mesoamerica, the Americas more
broadly, and with Europeans during the Colonial period – all the
while insisting that outsider status must be approached as
multi-scalar, relational, and intersectional rather than as
neutral, intrinsic, and static. Contributing broadly to
intellectual investigations on foreign identities from an
anthropological perspective, this book enriches the understanding
of Maya society for students and researchers of Mesoamerican
archaeology and art history.
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