Jessica Joyce Christie
Biographic Data
| ID | 117298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Joyce Christie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Christie |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIE J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9521-9555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Politics of Heritage Values
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu'u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island
This essay critically analyzes cultural and natural heritage of Kahalu`u Bay and Keauhou on the west coast of Hawai`i Island, which prospered as the royal centre from roughly A.D.1500 through the 1800s, through the lens of Hawaiian `ike (acceptance of knowledge diversity). Knowledge sources used here are archaeological reports, oral narratives, literature by contemporary Hawaiian scholars, organised into mo`olelo (Hawaiian story, oral history), a…
El patrimonio maya es la tierra (‘Maya heritage is the earth’)
This article investigates Yucatec Maya heritage and identity through the perspective of Indigenous ways of knowing. The focus is the work of Luis May Ku, a contemporary self-identified Yucatec Maya artist from the community of Dzan in the state of Yucatán (Mexico). It considers the interplay of heritage discourses and power hierarchies as they apply to his life in Dzan, in Coba, where he has been teaching, and his outreach to international bodies…
Re-reading Gendered Space at Ko‘a and Household Shrines on Hawai‘i Island and O‘ahu
Wak'a/shrine making and pilgrimage tourism in Copacabana, Bolivia
The cultural landscape of the town of Copacabana and nearby ancient sites on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, have functioned as magnetic places of pilgrimage from Inka times to the present. They are analyzed as landscape constructions through the eyes of political and religious authorities as well as through those of the common pilgrims in a bottom-up perspective from Inka to Colonial times and to the present. Methodologies used are study of pertaining a…
Earth Politics
The Mayan in the Mall
Book Review| January 01 2014 The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala. By Way, J. T.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $13.21 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 216–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2…
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
Book Review| April 01 2014 Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives. By Staller, John E. and Stross, Brian. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 259 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, references, index. $74.00 cloth.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other wo…
A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
The purpose of this essay is, first, to provide a comprehensive overview of all known ethnographic and archaeological data concerning the Inka rock art site of Q'enqo (Kenko), which includes evidence from recent excavations conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura. It offers an interpretive reconstruction of events that might have taken place there. Q'enqo is one of the most famous yet superficially known Inka ruins and is generally explain…
Palaces of the Ancient New World. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Performing Kinship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes By Krista E. Van Vleet. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xiv + 273 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 777–778. https://doi…
Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the ‘Namgis, a Kwakwaka’wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Inka Roads, Lines, and Rock Shrines
This essay discusses how Andean people have "constructed" nature with four categories of Inka rock wak'as (shrines) located on trails. Three groups consist of sculpted rocks on physical roads. The fourth category refers to the concept of extended zeq'es (radial lines and paths marked by shrines) which structured the natural and social environment of Cusco and probably of other Inka towns. I show that the Inka modified boulders on physical and con…
Did The Inka Copy Cusco? An Answer Derived From an Architectural-Sculptural Model
Este artículo examina el diseño arquitectónico esculpido compuesto por una kallanka, una piedra labrada/enfatizada y una plaza en varios asentamientos Inka, y analiza como este diseño materializaba aspectos de la ideología del estado Inka. Una kallanka es una larga y publica estructura rectangular con numerosas puertas abriendo sobre una plaza. La plaza exhibe una piedra especial que podía quedarse tal cual, sin modificación, o al contrario prese…
Palaces and Power in the Americas
Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie Part 1. Identification of Palaces 1. Looking for Moche Palaces in the Elite Residences of the Huacas of Moche Site - Claude Chapdelaine 2. Landscape of Power: A Network of Palaces in Middle Horizon Peru - William H. Isbell 3. Lords of the Great House: Pueblo Bonito as a Palace - Stephen H. Lekson Part 2. Palaces as Active Stage Sets of Political Ideology 4. Sacred and Profane Mountains of the Pasion: Contrast…
The Stela as a Cultural Symbol in Classic and Contemporary Maya Societies
In Classic Maya society, the stela was an important medium through which historical information was conveyed. Stelae are free-standing stone slabs carved in low relief that usually depict portraits of rulers, which are accompanied by hieroglyphic texts recording the rulers' identity and actions. Recent research has focused on the stela not only as a carrier of information but also as an important cultural symbol in its own right. In 1985, Linda S…
Inka Roads, Lines, and Rock Shrines
This essay discusses how Andean people have "constructed" nature with four categories of Inka rock wak'as (shrines) located on trails. Three groups consist of sculpted rocks on physical roads. The fourth category refers to the concept of extended zeq'es (radial lines and paths marked by shrines) which structured the natural and social environment of Cusco and probably of other Inka towns. I show that the Inka modified boulders on physical and con…
The Stela as a Cultural Symbol in Classic and Contemporary Maya Societies
In Classic Maya society, the stela was an important medium through which historical information was conveyed. Stelae are free-standing stone slabs carved in low relief that usually depict portraits of rulers, which are accompanied by hieroglyphic texts recording the rulers' identity and actions. Recent research has focused on the stela not only as a carrier of information but also as an important cultural symbol in its own right. In 1985, Linda S…
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
The purpose of this essay is, first, to provide a comprehensive overview of all known ethnographic and archaeological data concerning the Inka rock art site of Q'enqo (Kenko), which includes evidence from recent excavations conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura. It offers an interpretive reconstruction of events that might have taken place there. Q'enqo is one of the most famous yet superficially known Inka ruins and is generally explain…
Did The Inka Copy Cusco? An Answer Derived From an Architectural-Sculptural Model
Este artículo examina el diseño arquitectónico esculpido compuesto por una kallanka, una piedra labrada/enfatizada y una plaza en varios asentamientos Inka, y analiza como este diseño materializaba aspectos de la ideología del estado Inka. Una kallanka es una larga y publica estructura rectangular con numerosas puertas abriendo sobre una plaza. La plaza exhibe una piedra especial que podía quedarse tal cual, sin modificación, o al contrario prese…
Wak'a/shrine making and pilgrimage tourism in Copacabana, Bolivia
The cultural landscape of the town of Copacabana and nearby ancient sites on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, have functioned as magnetic places of pilgrimage from Inka times to the present. They are analyzed as landscape constructions through the eyes of political and religious authorities as well as through those of the common pilgrims in a bottom-up perspective from Inka to Colonial times and to the present. Methodologies used are study of pertaining a…
Performing Kinship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes By Krista E. Van Vleet. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xiv + 273 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 777–778. https://doi…
El patrimonio maya es la tierra (‘Maya heritage is the earth’)
This article investigates Yucatec Maya heritage and identity through the perspective of Indigenous ways of knowing. The focus is the work of Luis May Ku, a contemporary self-identified Yucatec Maya artist from the community of Dzan in the state of Yucatán (Mexico). It considers the interplay of heritage discourses and power hierarchies as they apply to his life in Dzan, in Coba, where he has been teaching, and his outreach to international bodies…
The Stela as a Cultural Symbol in Classic and Contemporary Maya Societies
In Classic Maya society, the stela was an important medium through which historical information was conveyed. Stelae are free-standing stone slabs carved in low relief that usually depict portraits of rulers, which are accompanied by hieroglyphic texts recording the rulers' identity and actions. Recent research has focused on the stela not only as a carrier of information but also as an important cultural symbol in its own right. In 1985, Linda S…
Palaces and Power in the Americas
Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie Part 1. Identification of Palaces 1. Looking for Moche Palaces in the Elite Residences of the Huacas of Moche Site - Claude Chapdelaine 2. Landscape of Power: A Network of Palaces in Middle Horizon Peru - William H. Isbell 3. Lords of the Great House: Pueblo Bonito as a Palace - Stephen H. Lekson Part 2. Palaces as Active Stage Sets of Political Ideology 4. Sacred and Profane Mountains of the Pasion: Contrast…
Did The Inka Copy Cusco? An Answer Derived From an Architectural-Sculptural Model
Este artículo examina el diseño arquitectónico esculpido compuesto por una kallanka, una piedra labrada/enfatizada y una plaza en varios asentamientos Inka, y analiza como este diseño materializaba aspectos de la ideología del estado Inka. Una kallanka es una larga y publica estructura rectangular con numerosas puertas abriendo sobre una plaza. La plaza exhibe una piedra especial que podía quedarse tal cual, sin modificación, o al contrario prese…
Inka Roads, Lines, and Rock Shrines
This essay discusses how Andean people have "constructed" nature with four categories of Inka rock wak'as (shrines) located on trails. Three groups consist of sculpted rocks on physical roads. The fourth category refers to the concept of extended zeq'es (radial lines and paths marked by shrines) which structured the natural and social environment of Cusco and probably of other Inka towns. I show that the Inka modified boulders on physical and con…
Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the ‘Namgis, a Kwakwaka’wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Palaces of the Ancient New World. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Performing Kinship
Book Review| October 01 2010 Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes By Krista E. Van Vleet. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xiv + 273 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 777–778. https://doi…
A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
The purpose of this essay is, first, to provide a comprehensive overview of all known ethnographic and archaeological data concerning the Inka rock art site of Q'enqo (Kenko), which includes evidence from recent excavations conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura. It offers an interpretive reconstruction of events that might have taken place there. Q'enqo is one of the most famous yet superficially known Inka ruins and is generally explain…
The Mayan in the Mall
Book Review| January 01 2014 The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala. By Way, J. T.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $13.21 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 216–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2…
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
Book Review| April 01 2014 Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives. By Staller, John E. and Stross, Brian. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 259 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, references, index. $74.00 cloth.) Jessica Joyce Christie Jessica Joyce Christie Search for other wo…
Earth Politics
Wak'a/shrine making and pilgrimage tourism in Copacabana, Bolivia
The cultural landscape of the town of Copacabana and nearby ancient sites on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, have functioned as magnetic places of pilgrimage from Inka times to the present. They are analyzed as landscape constructions through the eyes of political and religious authorities as well as through those of the common pilgrims in a bottom-up perspective from Inka to Colonial times and to the present. Methodologies used are study of pertaining a…
El patrimonio maya es la tierra (‘Maya heritage is the earth’)
This article investigates Yucatec Maya heritage and identity through the perspective of Indigenous ways of knowing. The focus is the work of Luis May Ku, a contemporary self-identified Yucatec Maya artist from the community of Dzan in the state of Yucatán (Mexico). It considers the interplay of heritage discourses and power hierarchies as they apply to his life in Dzan, in Coba, where he has been teaching, and his outreach to international bodies…
Re-reading Gendered Space at Ko‘a and Household Shrines on Hawai‘i Island and O‘ahu
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu'u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island
This essay critically analyzes cultural and natural heritage of Kahalu`u Bay and Keauhou on the west coast of Hawai`i Island, which prospered as the royal centre from roughly A.D.1500 through the 1800s, through the lens of Hawaiian `ike (acceptance of knowledge diversity). Knowledge sources used here are archaeological reports, oral narratives, literature by contemporary Hawaiian scholars, organised into mo`olelo (Hawaiian story, oral history), a…
Politics of Heritage Values
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