Grant D Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 116557 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Grant D Jones |
| NOMBRES | Grant D |
| APELLIDO | Jones |
| FIRMA | JONES G D |
| AFILIACIONES | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5181-3082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Video Gaming Faith
Modern religious plurality invites religious and non-religious people to navigate four interreligious dialogical problems: (1) the inability to fully articulate faith, (2) the lack of persuasive religious language, (3) the reality of violence among the religions, and (4) the liquescent "truth" of modern times. How can plurality be framed for people whose sense of relationality is shaped by their participation in virtual worlds? One answer emerges…
The construction of a slave identity
The examination of indentured labour in the Western Pacific has been reported as pure historiography, without the guidance of an explicit theoretical framework. It has concluded that indenture in this case does not meet its own definition of slavery. However, this analysis is highly dated in as much as it is narrowly institutionalist in perspective, relying on legalistic points of distinction, such as the existence of a labour contract. To challe…
Unconquered Lacandon Maya
Western scholars and popular writers have long demonstrated a fascination with the Lacandon Maya of the Chiapas lowlands, an interest sparked early on by explorer Desiré Charnay’s 1887 adventure book, The Ancient Cities of the New World, and Alfred M. Tozzer’s 1907 ethnography, A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones. Here Joel W. Palka presents a major new synthesis that both brings together more than a century of writing about the L…
Xuxub Must Die
Of Wonders and Wise Men
Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876. Terry Rugeley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 384 pp
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
Maya Conquistador
Representing Native Peoples
Revisiting the Canek Manuscript
I conclude that Hanns Prem's article in this issue is correct in the assessment that the Canek Manuscript is a forgery. This evaluation resulted from extensive communication with Prem and from additional research suggesting that the author of the Canek Manuscript used a 1917 publication by Philip Ainsworth Means and the writings of Sylvanus G. Morley as aids in constructing the text of the document. The forger's references to the Itza capital as …
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatán attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. This political and ritual center—located on a small island in a lake in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala—was densely covered with temples, royal palaces, and thatched houses, and its capture represented a decisive moment in the final chapter of the…
South and Meso-American Native Spirituality
South and Meso-American Native Spirituality
Soldiers of the Virgin
Locating Maya Lowlands Spanish Colonial Towns
Recent excavations of the Spanish Colonial Maya communities of Lamanai and Tipu, Belize, combine with extensive ethnohistorical research to provide guidelines for the location of other Historic-period sites in the region. We present brief case studies of community-location data from the ethnohistorical record, followed by observations regarding survey expectations and approaches appropriate to identification of Spanish Colonial-period sites. Thou…
The Canek Manuscript in Ethnohistorical Perspective
The Canek Manuscript describes a visit by Fray András de Avendaño y Loyola, two Franciscan companions, and ten Maya sacristans from the town of Tipu to the towns of Chacan on the western shore of Lake Peten Itza and Noh Peten (Tah Itza or Tayasal) on the island that today is Flores, Peten, Guatemala. This visit probably occurred in January or February, 1695, two years before the Spanish conquest of Noh Peten. The four-folio manuscript is a fragme…
Poor Beds of Sticks and Rings of Pure Gold
The Canek Manuscript offers an unusual opportunity for examination of the material culture of the Itza Maya of the seventeenth century. The document contains information about beds, canoes, musical instruments, royal jewelry and clothing, buildings, and religious objects. We interpret the textual information in terms of its reflection in the archaeological record and in ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Ambivalent Conquests
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517‐1570. Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii. 243 pp., maps, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $42.95 (cloth), $13.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐521‐33397‐0, ISBN 0‐521‐37981‐4
Ambivalent Conquests
Conquest of the Sierra
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Mayan Resistance to Spanish Rule
Harvest of Violence
On the Fringes of Conquest
The defeat of the Aztecs of Mexico by Hernán Cortés in 1521 was but the beginning of a long and torturous conquest of Central America that did not always result in the mastery of people and production for which the Spanish had hoped. The Maya of the resource-poor Yucatán peninsula were spared the heavy colonial hand that held fast to central Mexico and its riches. In addition, the dense forests of the peninsula served as a haven for refugees flee…
The Anthropology of Power
Locating Maya Lowlands Spanish Colonial Towns
Recent excavations of the Spanish Colonial Maya communities of Lamanai and Tipu, Belize, combine with extensive ethnohistorical research to provide guidelines for the location of other Historic-period sites in the region. We present brief case studies of community-location data from the ethnohistorical record, followed by observations regarding survey expectations and approaches appropriate to identification of Spanish Colonial-period sites. Thou…
Anthropology and History in Yucatan
The Location of Tayasal
An earlier article in this journal suggested that Tayasal, the island capital of the late Postclassic and historic period Itza Maya, was located at Topoxte on Lake Yaxha in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Study of ethnohistorical sources for the Peten Itza and their neighbors leads us to conclude, however, that Tayasal was in fact in Lake Peten Itza, the location long favored by earlier writers. These sources are reviewed here, and Tayasal is…
Anthropology and History in Yucatan
The Canek Manuscript in Ethnohistorical Perspective
The Canek Manuscript describes a visit by Fray András de Avendaño y Loyola, two Franciscan companions, and ten Maya sacristans from the town of Tipu to the towns of Chacan on the western shore of Lake Peten Itza and Noh Peten (Tah Itza or Tayasal) on the island that today is Flores, Peten, Guatemala. This visit probably occurred in January or February, 1695, two years before the Spanish conquest of Noh Peten. The four-folio manuscript is a fragme…
Revolution and continuity in Santa Cruz Maya society
There are marked differences in the allocation of political roles in the leadership hierarchies of the early Santa Cruz Maya (1850-1863) and the X-Cacal Maya of 1935-1936. The explanation of these differences rests in an analysis of early factional conflict at Santa Cruz that led to revolutionary struggles during 1863-1864. This analysis suggests the need to develop more satisfactory ethnohistorically and ethnographically based models of lowland …
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Video Gaming Faith
Modern religious plurality invites religious and non-religious people to navigate four interreligious dialogical problems: (1) the inability to fully articulate faith, (2) the lack of persuasive religious language, (3) the reality of violence among the religions, and (4) the liquescent "truth" of modern times. How can plurality be framed for people whose sense of relationality is shaped by their participation in virtual worlds? One answer emerges…
The construction of a slave identity
The examination of indentured labour in the Western Pacific has been reported as pure historiography, without the guidance of an explicit theoretical framework. It has concluded that indenture in this case does not meet its own definition of slavery. However, this analysis is highly dated in as much as it is narrowly institutionalist in perspective, relying on legalistic points of distinction, such as the existence of a labour contract. To challe…
Xuxub Must Die
Revisiting the Canek Manuscript
I conclude that Hanns Prem's article in this issue is correct in the assessment that the Canek Manuscript is a forgery. This evaluation resulted from extensive communication with Prem and from additional research suggesting that the author of the Canek Manuscript used a 1917 publication by Philip Ainsworth Means and the writings of Sylvanus G. Morley as aids in constructing the text of the document. The forger's references to the Itza capital as …
Poor Beds of Sticks and Rings of Pure Gold
The Canek Manuscript offers an unusual opportunity for examination of the material culture of the Itza Maya of the seventeenth century. The document contains information about beds, canoes, musical instruments, royal jewelry and clothing, buildings, and religious objects. We interpret the textual information in terms of its reflection in the archaeological record and in ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources
Mayan Resistance to Spanish Rule
Linguistic Problems in British Honduras
Ethnology
Revolution and continuity in Santa Cruz Maya society
There are marked differences in the allocation of political roles in the leadership hierarchies of the early Santa Cruz Maya (1850-1863) and the X-Cacal Maya of 1935-1936. The explanation of these differences rests in an analysis of early factional conflict at Santa Cruz that led to revolutionary struggles during 1863-1864. This analysis suggests the need to develop more satisfactory ethnohistorically and ethnographically based models of lowland …
Anthropology and History in Yucatan
Anthropology and History in Yucatan
Anthropology and History in Yucatan
The Location of Tayasal
An earlier article in this journal suggested that Tayasal, the island capital of the late Postclassic and historic period Itza Maya, was located at Topoxte on Lake Yaxha in the Department of Peten, Guatemala. Study of ethnohistorical sources for the Peten Itza and their neighbors leads us to conclude, however, that Tayasal was in fact in Lake Peten Itza, the location long favored by earlier writers. These sources are reviewed here, and Tayasal is…
The Transition to Statehood in the New World
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Issues in the study of New World state formation Grant D. Jones and Robert R. Kautz Part II. Sociopolitical Factors in State Formation: 2. The chiefdom: precursor of the state Robert L. Carneiro 3. Class conflict and the state in the New World Jonathan Haas 4. The ecological basis for New World state formation: general and local model building Mark N. Cohen 5. The transition to statehood as seen from the mouth of …
The Anthropology of Power
The Transition to Statehood in the New World
Women and the Ancestors
Recent Ethnohistorical Works on Southeastern Mesoamerica
These six books represent only a sample of the numerous contributions to southeastern Mesoamerican ethnohistory published over the past several years. 1 They have in common some degree of concern with the experiences of Mayan-speaking Indian societies as these peoples confronted the conditions emerging from the Spanish colonial experience. Taken together, these works encompass the entire sweep of postconquest history. Their regional scope, howeve…
On the Fringes of Conquest
The defeat of the Aztecs of Mexico by Hernán Cortés in 1521 was but the beginning of a long and torturous conquest of Central America that did not always result in the mastery of people and production for which the Spanish had hoped. The Maya of the resource-poor Yucatán peninsula were spared the heavy colonial hand that held fast to central Mexico and its riches. In addition, the dense forests of the peninsula served as a haven for refugees flee…
Mayan Resistance to Spanish Rule
Harvest of Violence
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Ambivalent Conquests
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517‐1570. Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii. 243 pp., maps, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $42.95 (cloth), $13.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐521‐33397‐0, ISBN 0‐521‐37981‐4
Ambivalent Conquests
Conquest of the Sierra
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
The Canek Manuscript in Ethnohistorical Perspective
The Canek Manuscript describes a visit by Fray András de Avendaño y Loyola, two Franciscan companions, and ten Maya sacristans from the town of Tipu to the towns of Chacan on the western shore of Lake Peten Itza and Noh Peten (Tah Itza or Tayasal) on the island that today is Flores, Peten, Guatemala. This visit probably occurred in January or February, 1695, two years before the Spanish conquest of Noh Peten. The four-folio manuscript is a fragme…
Poor Beds of Sticks and Rings of Pure Gold
The Canek Manuscript offers an unusual opportunity for examination of the material culture of the Itza Maya of the seventeenth century. The document contains information about beds, canoes, musical instruments, royal jewelry and clothing, buildings, and religious objects. We interpret the textual information in terms of its reflection in the archaeological record and in ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
Locating Maya Lowlands Spanish Colonial Towns
Recent excavations of the Spanish Colonial Maya communities of Lamanai and Tipu, Belize, combine with extensive ethnohistorical research to provide guidelines for the location of other Historic-period sites in the region. We present brief case studies of community-location data from the ethnohistorical record, followed by observations regarding survey expectations and approaches appropriate to identification of Spanish Colonial-period sites. Thou…
South and Meso-American Native Spirituality
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