{"title":"Una reconsideración de la procedencia del Códice Madrid","authors":"P. Sullivan","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x875","url":null,"abstract":"On two pages of the Maya hieroglyphic manuscript known as the Madrid Codex are found vestiges of European paper. Visible on one of those fragments are handwritten words in Latin and Spanish. Scholars first proposed that the European paper had been incorporated into the substrate of the Maya codex during manufacture, and that the codex was a post-conquest creation. A re-analysis of the codex has shown, however, that the European paper became adhered to the codex after it was manufactured and painted. Another study has argued that it is a fragment of a Bull of the Santa Cruzada and that its presence helps to identify the approximate year and place when the Maya codex fell into the hands of Spanish friars. This article will show that argument is incorrect and that the European writing found in the Madrid Codex does not clarify the provenience of this important document.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43670792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluación multiperspectiva de las palmas de Sabal y otras plantas posiblemente utilizadas como material para techos por los antiguos mayas en las tierras bajas centrales","authors":"Paul Graf","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x872","url":null,"abstract":"The Maya vernacular house of the pre-Columbian era has been little studied so far and new methodological approaches are needed to reconstruct its architectural and material characteristics. Particularly for the roof, there is a lack of any studies that would verify the speculative descriptions in the literature. Using a multi-perspective approach that includes ecological, paleoecological, archaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnobotanical and ethnolinguistic perspectives, this article aims to evaluate the palm species of the genus Sabal, known as the guano palm or xa'an, as the most important resource for roof construction in the Maya lowlands. Based on data from my own geoethnobotanical and ethnoarchaeological field work, paleoecological data from drilling cores and research results from other studies, it is demonstrated that a forest species of the genus Sabal was probably the primary thatching material for the Classic population of the central Maya lowlands.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"12 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41262147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elma Beatriz Heredia Campos, Diana del Rosario Cahuich Campos, Olga Silvia Terán y Contreras, Ramón Mariaca Méndez
{"title":"Rituales para la protección de animales domésticos en los solares de Yaxcabá y Yaxunah, Yucatán, México","authors":"Elma Beatriz Heredia Campos, Diana del Rosario Cahuich Campos, Olga Silvia Terán y Contreras, Ramón Mariaca Méndez","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.59.22x877","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work is to identify the rituals related for the protection of domestic animals raised on the Mayan “solares” of Yaxcabá and Yaxunah, Yucatán, Mexico. On the “solar” are especially raised domestic animals (chickens, turkeys and pigs), which are an important element for peasant families, because they are part of economy, their daily food, in the festivities, ceremonies and rituals to give continuity to family and communal life. Our results show that the Catholic families of Yaxcabá an Yaxunah continue to perform ceremonies such as k’eex loj, the loj, the jets’ lu’um and primicia de saka’ (sacred corn drink), the purpose of these ceremonies is to ask permission and to thank the “owners” of nature for the use that is made of the resources, which favors a relationship of balance with them, in this way the “Owners” will take care of entire “solar” and the inhabitants of this space, the family members and the animals raised are safeguarded from the “malos vientos” or k'as k'aas íik', causing disease and calamities. This study highlights the vision of the world that persists in the peninsular Mayan communities, biocultural knowledge and practices are preserved that show the ways of relating to nature. The knowledge about the rituals of the owners of the site and a ritual specialist, called a spiritualist, is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46487877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wolfgang Gabbert, Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 342 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-49174-7.","authors":"J. A. García","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"339-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42569190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Los bienes de comunidad en Yucatán al final del siglo XVIII: el caso de Izamal","authors":"María de Guadalupe Suárez Castro","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23865","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the administration of the community goods of yucatec towns during colonial period and we analyze the “Matricula y cuenta de comunidad de los indios de la cabecera y pueblo de Izamal de 1795”, document located in the Archivo General de la Nacion of Mexico. “The Matricula y cuenta” is along with Buczotz and Pixila (previous documents in the same record), the only ones of its kind that we had been found for the yucatec towns of the eighteenth century. With this work, we contribute to increase the researches of this topic, and we corroborate the general interpretations proposed about the administration of those gods; also, we present the particularities of Izamal “community found” and we understand the ties of community identity of this town during this period.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42672350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ivan Šprajc, Lost Maya Cities: Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2020, 317 pp. ISBN 781623498214.","authors":"Javier López Camacho","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49425984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiesta y ritual en el Grupo IV de Palenque","authors":"Andrés Ciudad Ruíz, Carlos Miguel Varela Scherrer","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1107","url":null,"abstract":"The collective ceremonies, whether of a community or family nature, were hierarchical in the societies of the Mayan Lowlands of the Classic period, and were designed within the framework of a wide range of purposes; so its footprint in the archaeological record also presents a high degree of variation. Many of these rituals culminated in the celebration of festivals and meals that, on rare occasions, reveal a similar \"archaeological physiognomy\" and make it difficult to interpret their nature. In this essay we analyze a ritual deposit excavated behind the J3 Structure of Group IV of Palenque, an elite residential space occupied by one of the most distinguished noble lineages of the city, as well as the collective ingestion of foods and beverages by its officiants and assistants.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"11-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42285566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jóvenes mayas o de origen maya hacia la universidad: desigualdades, agencia y movilidad social","authors":"Víctor Hugo Rosero Arcos","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1082","url":null,"abstract":"En anos recientes, la poblacion indigena de Mexico accede en mayor numero a los estudios superiores. Desde una perspectiva analitica sobre las desigualdades sociales, en este articulo se abordan las trayectorias educativas de jovenes mayas o de origen maya que han llegado a la universidad en Yucatan. Se muestra como un restringido acceso a la estructura de oportunidades en funcion del origen social y un entorno escolar precario, se traduce en perpetuar la condicion educativa desventajosa hasta el nivel universitario. No obstante, tambien se identifica que en estos entornos deficitarios, la interaccion con agentes sociales es un factor clave para propiciar un cambio de rumbo hacia contextos educativos mas favorables. Se identifica tambien un sector privilegiado de jovenes provenientes de familias que transitaron por procesos de movilidad social, que hace de sus trayectorias educativas un camino mas estable y con menos obstaculos.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"237-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42079740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museo Comunitario de Morocoy: su importancia como lugar de sociabilidad cultural para la comunidad y para el turista","authors":"Allan Ortega Muñoz","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23869","url":null,"abstract":"The Morocoy Community Museum (Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a cultural spot since 2015. The goal of this paper is to develop a visitor’s study, analyzing its function as a means of cultural and educational socialization through the record book and its written mentions about the museum, from January 2019 to January 2020, with 306 individual registers including sex, place of origin and opinions. Crosstab tabulations, hypothesis tests, and logistic regression were performed to compare the characteristics of the visitors categorized by sex, procedence, and five categories of opinions. The main results have shown that locals see the museum as an important space for the knowledge of their historical and cultural heritage, meanwhile foreigners have shown more interest about museum exhibition, and the documentation presented there. There is not a statistical difference in the assistance between sexes. The final reflection is about the importance to develop an institutional policy, from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, to support the logistic of creation of these kind of museums, in view of the interest to create them along the route of the Maya Train system.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41608451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}