{"title":"La construcción de una plaza: espacios públicos y áreas de mercado en Tenam Puente, Chiapas, México","authors":"E. H. Paris, R. Bravo, G. Jacinto","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1091","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the shifting meanings and practices inscribed on the Main Plaza at the ancient Maya city of Tenam Puente. Plazas are fundamental features of ancient Mesoamerican cities that were important sites for civic activities such as mass spectacles, ceremonies, private rituals, feasting. More recently, certain plazas have also been documented as permanent or periodic marketplaces. New radiocarbon dates and stratigraphic test excavations provide evidence for several important transformations in the built landscape of Tenam Puente’s Main Plaza, including renovations to the site’s principal ballcourt, a large filling and resurfacing event, and a significant addition to the plaza’s volume for the purpose of building a semi-enclosed marketplace plaza. These results provide insight into the evolving nature of public space at the site, from a focus on private rituals and dynastic rule, to an emphasis on mass spectacle, commercial activity, and civic engagement.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"45-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41689156","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":"La historia de un expediente de litigio de tierra en Chiapas. Una propuesta metodológica.","authors":"M. Annereau-Fulbert, A. Hernández","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1076","url":null,"abstract":"In Chiapas, and particularly in the Highland region, few colonial indigenous documents have been found that are similar to those produced by the neighboring Maya peoples of the Guatemala Highlands and the Yucatan Peninsula. The question of whether or not such sources exist is an legitimate one, considering the importance of these testimonies for linking Postclassic historical processes to the development of indigenous societies in the Colonial era. In this respect, the Chiapa Title is an exception. It is a record that gives us a glimpse of the dynamics and conflicts that unfolded between two large political centers: Chiapa and Zinacantan. Thus, the objective of this article is not to reexamine the content of the document, whose classification as a ''title'' is erroneous, but to analyze the nature and form of this fragment and contextualize it in the framework of the legal discourse of the era and the conflicts between the so-called ''pueblos indios ''. To this end, we set forth the methodological guidelines used in our examination of the document, as well as reflections on its complex connection to the still fragmentary archeological corpus from the Postclassic period and its transition to the Colonial era.","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"117-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47145975","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":"J. L. Camacho","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1106","url":null,"abstract":"Resena del libro Ivan Sprajc, Lost Maya Cities: Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"331-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47262933","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":"M. G. Castro","doi":"10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/IIFL.ECM.2021.58.1077","url":null,"abstract":"En este articulo estudiamos la administracion de los bienes de comunidad de los pueblos yucatecos durante el periodo virreinal, particularmente en el contexto de las reformas borbonicas. A manera de ejemplo, analizamos el caso de los bienes de la poblacion de Izamal a traves de la “Matricula y cuenta de comunidad de los indios de la cabecera y pueblo de Izamal de 1795”, documento localizado en el Archivo General de la Nacion que, junto con las de Buczotz y Pixila (que le anteceden en el mismo expediente), son las unicas correspondientes a esta tipologia documental que hasta ahora hemos encontrado para el estudio de los bienes de los pueblos yucatecos de este periodo. Por ultimo, proponemos que los asentamientos denominados en esta cuenta como barrios corresponden a las estancias de cofradias ordenadas rematar unos anos antes por el obispo fray Luis Pina y Mazo. Dado que formaban parte tambien de los bienes de comunidad, las estancias fueron deliberadamente ocultas en el documento por las autoridades locales con el objetivo de evitar su despojo y preservar asi los lazos de reciprocidad comunitaria. .","PeriodicalId":43489,"journal":{"name":"Estudios de Cultura Maya","volume":"58 1","pages":"161-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46033704","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":"Ciudades mayas en el norte de Petén, Guatemala: cuatro conjuntos palaciegos","authors":"Oscar Antonio Quintana Samayoa","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23863","url":null,"abstract":"Special features in the urban structure of the Central Maya Lowlands are the palace complexes. They function as a symbolic scheme that represents the center of the city and the power of its rulers. In other contributions, the author has studied the urban composition of various Maya cities in Northern Petén. On this occasion, the study of two elements is deepened: first, the palace complexes, and second, the plaza that precedes them. We compare these elements in four cities with similar characteristics of chronology and cultural region: the Central Acropolis of Tikal, and the palace complexes of Nakum, San Clemente and La Blanca. In the analysis of these relationships we consider, in addition to the concept of the initial study, other methodological aspects that help us to identify and typify a building pattern for the palace complexes in Northern Petén, Guatemala.","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":"45658700","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 Ruiz, C. M. Varela Scherrer","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23861","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":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48031820","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":"Fray Diego de Landa, obispo electo de Yucatán, según su información de legitimidad y nobleza de 1572","authors":"M. León","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23870","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of publishing this document is to contribute to the knowledge of the fray Diego de Landa’s biography, with the aim of enlightening his election as Yucatán´s Bishop, according to the Trento's Council and in regard to the political guidelines of the Council of the Indies, in spite of his controversial role as a peninsular Maya’s evangelist, during the second half of XVI century.","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":"41654959","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":"La historia de un expediente de litigio de tierra en Chiapas. Una propuesta metodológica","authors":"M. Annereau-Fulbert, A. F. Flores Hernández","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23864","url":null,"abstract":"In Chiapas, and particularly in the Highland region, few colonial indigenous documents have been found that are similar to those produced by the neighboring Maya peoples of the Guatemala Highlands and the Yucatan Peninsula. The question of whether or not such sources exist is an legitimate one, considering the importance of these testimonies for linking Postclassic historical processes to the development of indigenous societies in the Colonial era. In this respect, the Chiapa Title is an exception. It is a record that gives us a glimpse of the dynamics and conflicts that unfolded between two large political centers: Chiapa and Zinacantan. Thus, the objective of this article is not to reexamine the content of the document, whose classification as a ''title'' is erroneous, but to analyze the nature and form of this fragment and contextualize it in the framework of the legal discourse of the era and the conflicts between the so-called ''pueblos indios''. To this end, we set forth the methodological guidelines used in our examination of the document, as well as reflections on its complex connection to the still fragmentary archeological corpus from the Postclassic period and its transition to the Colonial era.","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":"42175974","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 debates sobre la justicia en Guatemala 1797-1820","authors":"J. Pérez","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23866","url":null,"abstract":"The application of justice was the basis of the legitimacy of the Spanish monarchy in its different territories. The central figure of the King as a distributor of justice has been one of the keys to the study of colonial justice in historiography, building a consolidated field in recent decades. For this reason, some aspects of the debate on the nature of justice in a period of general crisis in the Kingdom of Guatemala (1797-1820) will be addressed. This will allow us to see, in the future, the forms of appropriation and reinterpretation by the population.","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":"46294883","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":"El proclítico verbal a: el vínculo entre el Poqomchi’ y los idiomas mayas cholanos","authors":"I. Vinogradov","doi":"10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2021.58.23867","url":null,"abstract":"Some missionary texts written during the Colonial period in the Poqomchi’ language (Mayan family, K’ichean subgroup) attest the verbal proclitic a, that is being lost in the modern language. It was added to verb forms in the completive aspect marked by the prefix x- and indicated, roughly speaking, the relevance of a past event at the moment of utterance. The same proclitic with similar meaning is also registered in two Mayan languages of the Cholan subgroup: Chontal of Tabasco and Chontal of Acalán. The Poqomchi’ people, despite their origin in the Guatemalan highlands, were neighbors of the Cholan groups for a considerable period of time. It is probable that the proclitic a was introduced to Poqomchi’ during the Postclassic period thanks to language contacts with some Cholan group, possibly the Acalá, who spoke a variety of Chontal, that is, a western Cholan language.","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":"42716190","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}