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Titre(s) : Archaeology at El Perú Waka' [Texte imprimé] : ancient Maya performances of ritual, memory, and power / edited by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr and Michelle Rich
Publication : Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-278 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Native peoples of the Americas
Lien à la collection : Native peoples of the Americas
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-262) and index
"Archaeology at El Perú Waka' is the first book to summarize long-term research at
this major Maya site. The results of fieldwork and subsequent analyses conducted by
members of the El Perú Waka' Regional Archaeological Project are coupled with theoretical
approaches treating the topics of ritual, memory, and power as deciphered through
material remains discovered at Waka'. The book is site-centered, yet the fifteen wide-ranging
contributions offer readers greater insight to the richness and complexity of Classic-period
Maya culture, as well as to the ways in which archaeologists believe ancient peoples
negotiated their ritual lives and comprehended their own pasts. El Perú Waka' is
an ancient Maya city located in present-day northwestern Peten, Guatemala. Rediscovered
by petroleum exploration workers in the mid-1960s, it is the largest known archaeological
site in the Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve.
The El Perú Waka' Regional Archaeological Project initiated scientific investigations
in 2003, and through excavation and survey, researchers established that Waka' was
a key political and economic center well integrated into Classic-period lowland Maya
civilization, and reconstructed many aspects of Maya life and ritual activity in this
ancient community. The research detailed in this volume provides a wealth of new,
substantive, and scientifically excavated data, which contributors approach with fresh
theoretical insights. In the process, they lay out sound strategies for understanding
the ritual manipulation of monuments, landscapes, buildings, objects, and memories,
as well as related topics encompassing the performance and negotiation of power throughout
the city's extensive sociopolitical history"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Navarro-Farr, Olivia C. (1976-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rich, Michelle E. (1971-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Mayas -- Antiquités -- Petén (Guatemala ; département)
Rites et cérémonies -- Petén (Guatemala ; département)
Fouilles archéologiques -- Petén (Guatemala ; département)
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.897 42 (23e éd.) = Sociologie des peuples qui parlent les langues maya
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816530960
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471942469
Notice n° :
FRBNF47194246
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Chapter 1. Ritual, Memory, and Power among the Maya and at Classic Period El Perú-Waka'
/ Michelle Rich and Olivia Navarro-Farr ; Chapter 2. Stelae, Buildings, and People
: Reflections on Ritual in the Archaeological Record at El Perú-Waka' / David A.
Freidel and Héctor L. Escobedo ; Chapter 3. A Palimpsest Effect : The Multi-Layered
Meanings of Late-to-Terminal Classic Era Above-Floor Deposits at Structure M13-1 /
Olivia C. Navarro-Farr and Ana Lucía Arroyave Prera ; Chapter 4. Royal Alliances,
Ritual Behavior, and the Abandonment of the Royal Couple Building at El Perú-Waka'
/ Mary Jane Acuña ; Chapter 5. The Power of the Past : Crafting Meaning at a Royal
Funerary Pyramid / Michelle Rich and Varinia Matute Rodríguez ; Chapter 6. Ritual
and Remembrance at the Northwest Palace Complex, El Perú-Waka' / David F. Lee and
Jennifer C. Piehl ; Chapter 7. The Ballcourt Complex at El Perú / Juan Carlos Meléndeez
Mollinedo ; Chapter 8. Ritual Narratives from El Perú-Waka' : Ceremonial Deposits
in Non-Royal, Elite Contexts / Keith Eppich ; Chapter 9. Sansamal Performance : Variability
in Ritual Contexts at El Perú-Waka' / Damien B. Marken ; Chapter 10. The Epigraphy
of El Perú-Waka' / Stanley Paul Guenter ; Chapter 11. Flint for the Dead : Ritual
Deposition of Production Debitage from El Perú-Waka', Burial 39 / Zachary Hruby and
Michelle Rich ; Chapter 12. The Noblewomen of Waka' : Mortuary and Osteological Insights
into the Construction of Gender, Identity, and Power / Jennifer Piehl, David Lee,
and Michelle Rich ; Chapter 13. Surveying Landscapes of Power and Ritual at Waka'
/ Evangelina Tsesmeli ; Chapter 14. Action, Thought, and Negotiation in Ritual :
A Commentary / Takeshi Inomata ; Epilogue / David A. Freidel and Héctor L. Escobedo
