Imagining Courtly Communities

An Exploration of Classic Maya Experiences of Status and Identity Through Painted Ceramic Vessels

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6033752
AutoresSarah E Jackson (0000-0001-5658-6168, University of Cincinnati, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas71-85
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAncient Mesoamerica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0956-5361 • E-ISSN: 1469-1787
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0956536109000066
OpenAlexW1979439091
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas41

Painted ceramic vessels of the Late Classic Maya, depicting scenes of the royal court, provide an entry into understanding the courtly community as an institution built on relationships and embodied through lived practice. By examining these ceramics both as circulating objects, representing the materialized form of courtly values, and as vehicles for imagery that conveys idealized representations of the court hierarchy and how it was enacted, archaeologists may more profoundly integrate material and iconographic investigations. Assertions of identity and status are examined through the ways in which they are “contained” by these decorated vessels and emerge as characterized by a series of simultaneous unifications and oppositions. A focus on bodily behaviors and interactions, and the ways in which objects played courtly roles in their own right, yields an animated understanding of a dynamic court and a larger perspective on the enactment of identity and difference in Classic Maya contexts

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Identity (music · Institution · Maya · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Law · Philosophy