Gabrielle Vail
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrielle Vail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Vail |
| SIGNATURE | VAIL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reconstruyendo rituales de la élite maya en las Tierras Bajas del norte. Una mirada desde los códices mayas y Ek’ Balam
Los textos de los murales y las tapas de bóveda en Ek’ Balam brindan una ventana única a algunos de los rituales practicados por el fundador dinástico y la población gobernante en el sitio, lo que permite una mayor comprensión de la cultura de élite del Clásico Tardío en las Tierras Bajas del norte durante este periodo de tiempo. La historia de Ek’ Balam difiere de la de otras entidades políticas del Clásico del norte, con una fundación tardía de…
The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13th to 15th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millen…
Venus Lore in the Postclassic Maya Codices: Deity Manifestations of the Morning and Evening Star
This study explores the mythology surrounding the appearances and disappearances of Venus from the sky and the role the morning and evening star aspects of Venus played in Maya divinatory and astronomical texts. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric sources link the morning star aspect of Venus with a series of bearded hunting deities. Representations of these figures—armed with the accoutrements of Venus—have recently been identified in the hunting alm…
World renewal rituals among the Postclassic Yucatec Maya and contemporary Ch’orti’ Maya
Archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric studies indicate that world renewal rituals were an important feature of prehispanic Maya society and continue to play a seminal role in indigenous communities throughout the Maya area today. Our discussion examines two examples of the multitude of such rituals that were performed to recreate the world by replicating the actions undertaken by the primordial deities at the beginning of the present crea…
Scribal Interaction and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge: A Postclassic Maya Perspective
This article contributes to the discussion of literacy in colonial Mesoamerica by providing a historical perspective concerning scribal practices in the pre-Hispanic Maya region-particularly those relating to the creation and use of screenfold codices-and interactions among different literary traditions. This data set provides an important point of departure for understanding later (colonial-period) practices among the elite of the northern Maya …
Milbrath, Susan: Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico. Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia
Anthropos , Seite 316 - 317
From the Classic Royal Court to Postclassic Migrations and Celestial Narratives: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Epigraphic Perspectives on Mesoamerica
Review Article| October 01 2014 From the Classic Royal Court to Postclassic Migrations and Celestial Narratives: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Epigraphic Perspectives on Mesoamerica Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period. By Jackson, Sarah E.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. xviii + 173 pp., charts, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.)Place and Identity in Classic Ma…
Mythological Episodes Related in Maya Sources
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Flood Episodes and Crocodilians in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Creation Mythology in the Dresden Venus Table and Related Almanacs
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Creation Mythology in Reference to Chaak, Chak Chel, and Mars in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
World Renewal Ceremonies in the Madrid Codex
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
World Renewal in the Dresden Codex: The Yearbearer Ceremonies
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Introduction to the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Mexican Codices and Mythological Traditions
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Cosmology in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
A Reconsideration of Maya Deities Associated with Creation
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Madrid Yearbearer Celebrations and Creation Mythology
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copn, Palenque, and Yaxchiln, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichn Itz and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or sou…
Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
The Construction of Memory: The Use of Classic Period Divinatory Texts in the Late Postclassic Maya Codices
Maya codices were important repositories of cultural knowledge and traditions passed down through the centuries. Rather than being focused on human actors, however, the Late Postclassic period Maya screenfolds contain almanacs that predict the movements of celestial bodies during earlier time periods. The purpose of these seemingly “out-of-date” tools was to predict the future based on notions of cyclical time. Recent research suggests that centu…
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation of theYax Cheel Cab, a Maya World Tree
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
Human Sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts
The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. longest of the surviving Maya codices, The Madrid includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practised by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries AD. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originat…
The Maya Codices
Research over the past decade has significantly advanced our understanding of the prehispanic Maya codices, both in terms of their content (i.e., hieroglyphic texts, calendrical structure, and iconography) as well as the physical documents themselves (where and when they were painted, and by whom). Recent avenues of exploration include a new emphasis on linguistic and textual analyses; novel methodologies for interpreting calendrical structure; a…
Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
The Maya Codices
Research over the past decade has significantly advanced our understanding of the prehispanic Maya codices, both in terms of their content (i.e., hieroglyphic texts, calendrical structure, and iconography) as well as the physical documents themselves (where and when they were painted, and by whom). Recent avenues of exploration include a new emphasis on linguistic and textual analyses; novel methodologies for interpreting calendrical structure; a…
Pre-Hispanic Maya Religion: Conceptions of Divinity in the Postclassic Maya Codices
For much of this century, scholars have tended to dismiss the Madrid Codex as a resource because of the large number of apparent scribal errors in the hieroglyphic text of the manuscript. An examination of naming patterns and attribute distribution with respect to the codical deities, however, reveals that many of these so-called errors are patterned in meaningful ways. These patterns suggest that our view of the Maya pantheon as consisting of a …
Scribal Interaction and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge: A Postclassic Maya Perspective
This article contributes to the discussion of literacy in colonial Mesoamerica by providing a historical perspective concerning scribal practices in the pre-Hispanic Maya region-particularly those relating to the creation and use of screenfold codices-and interactions among different literary traditions. This data set provides an important point of departure for understanding later (colonial-period) practices among the elite of the northern Maya …
The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13th to 15th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millen…
World renewal rituals among the Postclassic Yucatec Maya and contemporary Ch’orti’ Maya
Archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric studies indicate that world renewal rituals were an important feature of prehispanic Maya society and continue to play a seminal role in indigenous communities throughout the Maya area today. Our discussion examines two examples of the multitude of such rituals that were performed to recreate the world by replicating the actions undertaken by the primordial deities at the beginning of the present crea…
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation of theYax Cheel Cab, a Maya World Tree
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex
The Construction of Memory: The Use of Classic Period Divinatory Texts in the Late Postclassic Maya Codices
Maya codices were important repositories of cultural knowledge and traditions passed down through the centuries. Rather than being focused on human actors, however, the Late Postclassic period Maya screenfolds contain almanacs that predict the movements of celestial bodies during earlier time periods. The purpose of these seemingly “out-of-date” tools was to predict the future based on notions of cyclical time. Recent research suggests that centu…
Introduction to Special Issue: Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script
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Issues of Language and Ethnicity in the Postclassic Maya Codices
Researchers have long attributed the prehispanic Maya codices to a Yucatecan provenience, based on their style and on the occurrence of Yucatec words spelled phonetically in the glyphic texts. This interpretation has recently been challenged by two studies that demonstrate the presence of Ch’olan vocabulary and morphological features in the Dresden and Madrid codices, alongside the better known Yucatec spellings (Wald 1994, Lacadena 1997). The pr…
Pre-Hispanic Maya Religion: Conceptions of Divinity in the Postclassic Maya Codices
For much of this century, scholars have tended to dismiss the Madrid Codex as a resource because of the large number of apparent scribal errors in the hieroglyphic text of the manuscript. An examination of naming patterns and attribute distribution with respect to the codical deities, however, reveals that many of these so-called errors are patterned in meaningful ways. These patterns suggest that our view of the Maya pantheon as consisting of a …
New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex
The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. longest of the surviving Maya codices, The Madrid includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practised by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries AD. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originat…
The Maya Codices
Research over the past decade has significantly advanced our understanding of the prehispanic Maya codices, both in terms of their content (i.e., hieroglyphic texts, calendrical structure, and iconography) as well as the physical documents themselves (where and when they were painted, and by whom). Recent avenues of exploration include a new emphasis on linguistic and textual analyses; novel methodologies for interpreting calendrical structure; a…
Human Sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts
The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica: A Reevaluation of theYax Cheel Cab, a Maya World Tree
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
The Construction of Memory: The Use of Classic Period Divinatory Texts in the Late Postclassic Maya Codices
Maya codices were important repositories of cultural knowledge and traditions passed down through the centuries. Rather than being focused on human actors, however, the Late Postclassic period Maya screenfolds contain almanacs that predict the movements of celestial bodies during earlier time periods. The purpose of these seemingly “out-of-date” tools was to predict the future based on notions of cyclical time. Recent research suggests that centu…
Mythological Episodes Related in Maya Sources
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Flood Episodes and Crocodilians in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Creation Mythology in the Dresden Venus Table and Related Almanacs
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Creation Mythology in Reference to Chaak, Chak Chel, and Mars in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
World Renewal Ceremonies in the Madrid Codex
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
World Renewal in the Dresden Codex: The Yearbearer Ceremonies
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Introduction to the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Mexican Codices and Mythological Traditions
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Cosmology in the Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
A Reconsideration of Maya Deities Associated with Creation
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Madrid Yearbearer Celebrations and Creation Mythology
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copn, Palenque, and Yaxchiln, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichn Itz and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or sou…
Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
Studies of prehispanic Maya culture focus primarily on sites in the Classic period heartland-places such as Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque, and Yaxchilán, which reached their apogee during the sixth through ninth centuries.The northern Maya lowlands are less well known, with the exception of sites such as Chichén Itzá and those in the Puuc region.The time period after the depopulation of the great Maya cities, whether located in the northern or…
Milbrath, Susan: Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico. Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia
Anthropos , Seite 316 - 317
From the Classic Royal Court to Postclassic Migrations and Celestial Narratives: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Epigraphic Perspectives on Mesoamerica
Review Article| October 01 2014 From the Classic Royal Court to Postclassic Migrations and Celestial Narratives: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Epigraphic Perspectives on Mesoamerica Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period. By Jackson, Sarah E.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. xviii + 173 pp., charts, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.)Place and Identity in Classic Ma…
World renewal rituals among the Postclassic Yucatec Maya and contemporary Ch’orti’ Maya
Archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric studies indicate that world renewal rituals were an important feature of prehispanic Maya society and continue to play a seminal role in indigenous communities throughout the Maya area today. Our discussion examines two examples of the multitude of such rituals that were performed to recreate the world by replicating the actions undertaken by the primordial deities at the beginning of the present crea…
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