Cynthia Robin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 126923 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cynthia Robin |
| NOMBRES | Cynthia |
| APELLIDO | Robin |
| FIRMA | ROBIN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7394-4438 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 248 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Dialogue imaginaire entre étudiants–citoyens
Qu'est-ce qu'enseigner le droit ? 1 Est-ce enseigner le contenu de la règle de droit et, en l'occurrence, le traitement juridique du fait religieux en entreprise ? Est-ce replacer les réponses pratiques légales ou jurisprudentielles dans le contexte sociétal, économique, politique, philosophique... qui les entoure et qui préside à ces réponses ? Le problème juridique n'est-il qu'une question de technique ou est-il la traduction, la mise en mots d…
Ashmore, Wendy
Chan
Archaeology of Everyday Life
Everyday life is critical in the constitution of selves and societies alike. Archaeology, with its attention to material and spatial remains, is in a unique position to further studies of everyday life, as ordinary materials and spaces formalize how people learn about themselves and their world. This review defines an archaeology of everyday life, examines its historical roots, synthesizes new literature on the topic, and outlines future directio…
Ordinary People and East–West Symbolism
This chapter explores the possibility that east-west symbolism is an enduring aspect of Maya culture that was initially developed in farmers' community centers and homes and later appropriated by society's nobility and encoded in hieroglyphic texts and images and enshrined in the monuments of major civic-centers. This chapter explores these ideas through the analysis of the central religious complex at the ancient Maya farming community of Chan i…
Neither Dopes Nor Dupes
Drawing inspiration from the work and legacy of Elizabeth Brumfiel, I develop a case study about the lives and religious practices of Maya farmers at the Chan site in Belize, to demonstrate how farmers were neither the dopes, dupes, nor mystified masses of Maya state level ideologies. I use this case study to rethink anthropological theories that attempt to explain the role of state level ideologies in the production of inequality and power, part…
La bibliographie, de la science du bibliographe à l’outil administratif. Naissance d’une science officielle sous la Révolution et l’Empire
La science bibliographique et l’état de bibliographe préexistent à la Révolution mais sont définis de façon endogène et demeurent confinés dans un cercle étroit d’érudits. La fonction classificatoire de la bibliographie et le caractère encyclopédique des savoirs du bibliographe en font des outils privilégiés du traitement des acquisitions révolutionnaires. Ils sont mobilisés dès 1790 pour inventorier les bibliothèques ecclésiastiques nationalisée…
The Materiality of Everyday Life
This volume explores the analytical productivity of the convergence of two bodies of theory: materiality, defined here as the mutually constitutive relationships between people and the material world, and everyday life, conceived of as the ordinary practices that comprise most of human existence. An engagement with materiality and everyday life reveals three interventions critical to archaeological research. First, archaeological studies of the s…
Of Earth and Stone
This chapter explores the materials and materiality of the everyday lives of farmers living in the ancient Maya farming community of Chan located in west central Belize. Limestone bedrock and soil matrix were the substance of Chan's landscape. In constructing their community and across their daily lives, Chan's residents used, modified, and transformed earth and stone to build houses, agricultural terraces, quarries, and workshops that were the b…
Elizabeth Brumfiel, 1945–2012
was the best friend I ever had in the academic world. Even before I met her, her work, through her publications, had inspired mine. When I finally got the chance to meet her as a young assistant professor, followed by the chance to recruit her into my department, an intellectual exchange that fostered new insight into the meaning of inequality in
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Households, communities, and society exist in a mutually constituting relationship, shaping and being shaped by one another. Daily life within households can have political dimensions and affect societal organization. Research at the Maya farming community of Chan in Belize demonstrates how households shaped their lives, history, and politics for 2,000 years (800b.c.–a.d.1200). We examine the households of Chan's leaders and the social, economic,…
Everyday Life Matters
"While the study of ancient civilizations most often focuses on temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. Various chores completed during the course of a person’s daily life, though at first glance trivial, have a powerful impact on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops gene…
Class and Ethnicity in Ancient Mesoamerica
This article discusses notions of class and ethnicity in ancient Mesoamerica. Class differences in Mesoamerica were papered over by the inclusion of individuals of varying social statuses within corporate groups that constituted the basic building blocks of native society. Lockhart (1992) describes these groups as “a series of relatively equal, relatively separate and self-contained constituent parts of the whole.” Subgroups included both the nob…
Chan
Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya
Gender, Households, and Society
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history,…
Gender, Farming, and Long-Term Change
A reassessment of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological evidence documents variation in Maya agricultural technologies across time and space and change in the social relations of farming alongside other social, political, and economic changes over 1,000 years of Maya history. This contradicts a timeless narrative of manthefarmer that can be derived from contemporary Yucatec Maya sources. An examination of engendered experiences in the L…
Pine, prestige and politics of the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize
Comparing the source of a commodity with the social levels of the people amongst whom it is found can reveal important aspects of social structure. This case study of a Maya community, using archaeological and ethnographic data, shows that pine and pine charcoal was procured at a distance and distributed unevenly in settlements. The researchers deduce that this commodity was not freely available in the market place, but was subject to political c…
New Directions in Classic Maya Household Archaeology
Archaeological ethnographies
The way people organize living spaces defines and is defined by all aspects of their lives - social, political, economic and ritual. People meaningfully produce, use and experience living spaces. This calls for social and historical analyses of space as actually lived. By exploring notions of lived or living spaces we attempt to take up the idea of socializing spatial archaeology called for by Ashmore in her distinguished lecture. As a vehicle fo…
Outside of houses
This article examines the social construction and experience of everyday life in one socially salient place, the late Classic Maya farm-steads of Chan Nòohol, Belize. Men, women and children worked around the house and the 'domestic' and agricultural domains were neither socially or spatially segregated. Nor was everyday life a strictly inside or outside, private or public affair. These points underscore the fact that rigid Western taxonomizing i…
Middle Preclassic Buildings and Burials at Cuello, Belize
Two areas of Middle Preclassic architecture flanking a courtyard dating between ca. 650 and 400 B. C. were investigated. Successive plaster-floored houses were found that had perishable superstructures, and which demonstrated periodic partial demolition and rebuilding. Thirteen burials had a range of grave goods and orientations; burial position may, however, be lineage specific. While adult grave goods do not indicate social diversity, abundant …
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
Outside of houses
This article examines the social construction and experience of everyday life in one socially salient place, the late Classic Maya farm-steads of Chan Nòohol, Belize. Men, women and children worked around the house and the 'domestic' and agricultural domains were neither socially or spatially segregated. Nor was everyday life a strictly inside or outside, private or public affair. These points underscore the fact that rigid Western taxonomizing i…
New Directions in Classic Maya Household Archaeology
Gender, Farming, and Long-Term Change
A reassessment of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological evidence documents variation in Maya agricultural technologies across time and space and change in the social relations of farming alongside other social, political, and economic changes over 1,000 years of Maya history. This contradicts a timeless narrative of manthefarmer that can be derived from contemporary Yucatec Maya sources. An examination of engendered experiences in the L…
Gender, Households, and Society
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history,…
Archaeological ethnographies
The way people organize living spaces defines and is defined by all aspects of their lives - social, political, economic and ritual. People meaningfully produce, use and experience living spaces. This calls for social and historical analyses of space as actually lived. By exploring notions of lived or living spaces we attempt to take up the idea of socializing spatial archaeology called for by Ashmore in her distinguished lecture. As a vehicle fo…
Middle Preclassic Buildings and Burials at Cuello, Belize
Two areas of Middle Preclassic architecture flanking a courtyard dating between ca. 650 and 400 B. C. were investigated. Successive plaster-floored houses were found that had perishable superstructures, and which demonstrated periodic partial demolition and rebuilding. Thirteen burials had a range of grave goods and orientations; burial position may, however, be lineage specific. While adult grave goods do not indicate social diversity, abundant …
Archaeology of Everyday Life
Everyday life is critical in the constitution of selves and societies alike. Archaeology, with its attention to material and spatial remains, is in a unique position to further studies of everyday life, as ordinary materials and spaces formalize how people learn about themselves and their world. This review defines an archaeology of everyday life, examines its historical roots, synthesizes new literature on the topic, and outlines future directio…
Pine, prestige and politics of the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize
Comparing the source of a commodity with the social levels of the people amongst whom it is found can reveal important aspects of social structure. This case study of a Maya community, using archaeological and ethnographic data, shows that pine and pine charcoal was procured at a distance and distributed unevenly in settlements. The researchers deduce that this commodity was not freely available in the market place, but was subject to political c…
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Households, communities, and society exist in a mutually constituting relationship, shaping and being shaped by one another. Daily life within households can have political dimensions and affect societal organization. Research at the Maya farming community of Chan in Belize demonstrates how households shaped their lives, history, and politics for 2,000 years (800b.c.–a.d.1200). We examine the households of Chan's leaders and the social, economic,…
The Materiality of Everyday Life
This volume explores the analytical productivity of the convergence of two bodies of theory: materiality, defined here as the mutually constitutive relationships between people and the material world, and everyday life, conceived of as the ordinary practices that comprise most of human existence. An engagement with materiality and everyday life reveals three interventions critical to archaeological research. First, archaeological studies of the s…
Neither Dopes Nor Dupes
Drawing inspiration from the work and legacy of Elizabeth Brumfiel, I develop a case study about the lives and religious practices of Maya farmers at the Chan site in Belize, to demonstrate how farmers were neither the dopes, dupes, nor mystified masses of Maya state level ideologies. I use this case study to rethink anthropological theories that attempt to explain the role of state level ideologies in the production of inequality and power, part…
La bibliographie, de la science du bibliographe à l’outil administratif. Naissance d’une science officielle sous la Révolution et l’Empire
La science bibliographique et l’état de bibliographe préexistent à la Révolution mais sont définis de façon endogène et demeurent confinés dans un cercle étroit d’érudits. La fonction classificatoire de la bibliographie et le caractère encyclopédique des savoirs du bibliographe en font des outils privilégiés du traitement des acquisitions révolutionnaires. Ils sont mobilisés dès 1790 pour inventorier les bibliothèques ecclésiastiques nationalisée…
Of Earth and Stone
This chapter explores the materials and materiality of the everyday lives of farmers living in the ancient Maya farming community of Chan located in west central Belize. Limestone bedrock and soil matrix were the substance of Chan's landscape. In constructing their community and across their daily lives, Chan's residents used, modified, and transformed earth and stone to build houses, agricultural terraces, quarries, and workshops that were the b…
Elizabeth Brumfiel, 1945–2012
was the best friend I ever had in the academic world. Even before I met her, her work, through her publications, had inspired mine. When I finally got the chance to meet her as a young assistant professor, followed by the chance to recruit her into my department, an intellectual exchange that fostered new insight into the meaning of inequality in
Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
Middle Preclassic Buildings and Burials at Cuello, Belize
Two areas of Middle Preclassic architecture flanking a courtyard dating between ca. 650 and 400 B. C. were investigated. Successive plaster-floored houses were found that had perishable superstructures, and which demonstrated periodic partial demolition and rebuilding. Thirteen burials had a range of grave goods and orientations; burial position may, however, be lineage specific. While adult grave goods do not indicate social diversity, abundant …
Archaeological ethnographies
The way people organize living spaces defines and is defined by all aspects of their lives - social, political, economic and ritual. People meaningfully produce, use and experience living spaces. This calls for social and historical analyses of space as actually lived. By exploring notions of lived or living spaces we attempt to take up the idea of socializing spatial archaeology called for by Ashmore in her distinguished lecture. As a vehicle fo…
Outside of houses
This article examines the social construction and experience of everyday life in one socially salient place, the late Classic Maya farm-steads of Chan Nòohol, Belize. Men, women and children worked around the house and the 'domestic' and agricultural domains were neither socially or spatially segregated. Nor was everyday life a strictly inside or outside, private or public affair. These points underscore the fact that rigid Western taxonomizing i…
New Directions in Classic Maya Household Archaeology
Pine, prestige and politics of the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize
Comparing the source of a commodity with the social levels of the people amongst whom it is found can reveal important aspects of social structure. This case study of a Maya community, using archaeological and ethnographic data, shows that pine and pine charcoal was procured at a distance and distributed unevenly in settlements. The researchers deduce that this commodity was not freely available in the market place, but was subject to political c…
Gender, Farming, and Long-Term Change
A reassessment of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological evidence documents variation in Maya agricultural technologies across time and space and change in the social relations of farming alongside other social, political, and economic changes over 1,000 years of Maya history. This contradicts a timeless narrative of manthefarmer that can be derived from contemporary Yucatec Maya sources. An examination of engendered experiences in the L…
Gender, Households, and Society
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history,…
Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya
Class and Ethnicity in Ancient Mesoamerica
This article discusses notions of class and ethnicity in ancient Mesoamerica. Class differences in Mesoamerica were papered over by the inclusion of individuals of varying social statuses within corporate groups that constituted the basic building blocks of native society. Lockhart (1992) describes these groups as “a series of relatively equal, relatively separate and self-contained constituent parts of the whole.” Subgroups included both the nob…
Chan
Everyday Life Matters
"While the study of ancient civilizations most often focuses on temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. Various chores completed during the course of a person’s daily life, though at first glance trivial, have a powerful impact on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops gene…
Elizabeth Brumfiel, 1945–2012
was the best friend I ever had in the academic world. Even before I met her, her work, through her publications, had inspired mine. When I finally got the chance to meet her as a young assistant professor, followed by the chance to recruit her into my department, an intellectual exchange that fostered new insight into the meaning of inequality in
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Households, communities, and society exist in a mutually constituting relationship, shaping and being shaped by one another. Daily life within households can have political dimensions and affect societal organization. Research at the Maya farming community of Chan in Belize demonstrates how households shaped their lives, history, and politics for 2,000 years (800b.c.–a.d.1200). We examine the households of Chan's leaders and the social, economic,…
La bibliographie, de la science du bibliographe à l’outil administratif. Naissance d’une science officielle sous la Révolution et l’Empire
La science bibliographique et l’état de bibliographe préexistent à la Révolution mais sont définis de façon endogène et demeurent confinés dans un cercle étroit d’érudits. La fonction classificatoire de la bibliographie et le caractère encyclopédique des savoirs du bibliographe en font des outils privilégiés du traitement des acquisitions révolutionnaires. Ils sont mobilisés dès 1790 pour inventorier les bibliothèques ecclésiastiques nationalisée…
The Materiality of Everyday Life
This volume explores the analytical productivity of the convergence of two bodies of theory: materiality, defined here as the mutually constitutive relationships between people and the material world, and everyday life, conceived of as the ordinary practices that comprise most of human existence. An engagement with materiality and everyday life reveals three interventions critical to archaeological research. First, archaeological studies of the s…
Of Earth and Stone
This chapter explores the materials and materiality of the everyday lives of farmers living in the ancient Maya farming community of Chan located in west central Belize. Limestone bedrock and soil matrix were the substance of Chan's landscape. In constructing their community and across their daily lives, Chan's residents used, modified, and transformed earth and stone to build houses, agricultural terraces, quarries, and workshops that were the b…
Neither Dopes Nor Dupes
Drawing inspiration from the work and legacy of Elizabeth Brumfiel, I develop a case study about the lives and religious practices of Maya farmers at the Chan site in Belize, to demonstrate how farmers were neither the dopes, dupes, nor mystified masses of Maya state level ideologies. I use this case study to rethink anthropological theories that attempt to explain the role of state level ideologies in the production of inequality and power, part…
Ordinary People and East–West Symbolism
This chapter explores the possibility that east-west symbolism is an enduring aspect of Maya culture that was initially developed in farmers' community centers and homes and later appropriated by society's nobility and encoded in hieroglyphic texts and images and enshrined in the monuments of major civic-centers. This chapter explores these ideas through the analysis of the central religious complex at the ancient Maya farming community of Chan i…
Ashmore, Wendy
Chan
Archaeology of Everyday Life
Everyday life is critical in the constitution of selves and societies alike. Archaeology, with its attention to material and spatial remains, is in a unique position to further studies of everyday life, as ordinary materials and spaces formalize how people learn about themselves and their world. This review defines an archaeology of everyday life, examines its historical roots, synthesizes new literature on the topic, and outlines future directio…
Dialogue imaginaire entre étudiants–citoyens
Qu'est-ce qu'enseigner le droit ? 1 Est-ce enseigner le contenu de la règle de droit et, en l'occurrence, le traitement juridique du fait religieux en entreprise ? Est-ce replacer les réponses pratiques légales ou jurisprudentielles dans le contexte sociétal, économique, politique, philosophique... qui les entoure et qui préside à ces réponses ? Le problème juridique n'est-il qu'une question de technique ou est-il la traduction, la mise en mots d…
Archaeology (15 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Art (12 obras) · History (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Maya (10 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (9 obras)