Matthew G Looper
Biographic Data
| ID | 685799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew G Looper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew G |
| FAMILY NAME | Looper |
| SIGNATURE | LOOPER M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Chico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From History to Cultural Diversity
Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society
Objects with Voices among the Ancient Maya
Dance Performances at Quiriguá
This chapter proposes a reconstruction of the dance performances that took place at the Classic Maya city of Quirigua (Izabal, Guatemala), in association with a large platform designated 1A-1. Using spatial analysis and the iconography and programming patterns of public sculpture associated with this platform, the chapter suggests that the platform and its sculpture program provided a setting for dance performances that took place during the fest…
Ritual Diversity and Divergence of Classic Maya Dynastic Traditions
To study the Classic Maya is to at once recognize the shared material representations and practices that give coherence to this cultural category as a unit of analysis, as well as to critically examine the diversity and idiosyncrasy of specific cultural traits within prehispanic Maya society. Maya hieroglyphic writing, in particular the tradition of inscribing texts and images on carved stone monuments, offers evidence for widespread and mutually…
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…
Early Maya Dress and Adornment
Lightning Warrior
Life at the Crossroads: Quirigua before K'ak' Tiliw *2. A Restive Vassal: The Early Reign of K'ak' Tiliw *3. Rebellion and Revival: The First Stelae of K'ak' Tiliw *4. Dreams of Power: Stelae F, D, and E *5. Foundation of the Cosmic House: Stelae C and A and Zoomorph B *6. In Honor of a Great Warrior: The Legacy of K'ak' Tiliw * Appendix A. Rulers of Quirigua * Appendix B. Historical Events Recorded in the Texts of Quirigua * Appendix C. Selected…
Nahua in Ancient Mesoamerica
This paper examines Nahua words found in both the Maya codices and the monumental texts. These words, spelled with syllabic signs, occur for the most part in contexts associated with foreign influence: Nahuatl deity names and words for “helmet,” “tribute,” and “heart.” One word—“and then”—is a conjunction used frequently in discourse. Sound correspondences between these loan words and the Nahua sources suggest an Eastern Nahua dialect as the like…
From Inscribed Bodies to Distributed Persons
Following trends in anthropology, the human body has recently become an important topic of discourse in archaeology. While some anthropologists consider the body as a social metaphor or site of symbolic inscription, others have questioned the validity of approaches based on the dichotomization and hierarchization of the mind and body. Semasiology, in particular, offers an epistemologically sound basis for interpreting the body, by grounding agenc…
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art
Book Review| October 01 2002 The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceania, and North America Edited by Hope B. Werness. (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000. x + 360 pp., introduction, index of maps, bibliography, index.$50.00 cloth.) Matthew G. Looper Matthew G. Looper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 871–873. https://doi.…
New Perspectives on the Late Classic Political History of Quirigua, Guatemala
This article summarizes the Late Classic history of the Maya city of Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala, emphasizing its relations with other polities. Quirigua's origins as a kingdom are traced to a.d. 426, when the rulers of nearby Copan established it as a colony. For the next three centuries, the site apparently mediated an intense interaction between Copan and Tikal. In a.d. 736, a personage from Tikal's rival city, Calakmul, acted with the current…
Lightning Warrior
Life at the Crossroads: Quirigua before K'ak' Tiliw *2. A Restive Vassal: The Early Reign of K'ak' Tiliw *3. Rebellion and Revival: The First Stelae of K'ak' Tiliw *4. Dreams of Power: Stelae F, D, and E *5. Foundation of the Cosmic House: Stelae C and A and Zoomorph B *6. In Honor of a Great Warrior: The Legacy of K'ak' Tiliw * Appendix A. Rulers of Quirigua * Appendix B. Historical Events Recorded in the Texts of Quirigua * Appendix C. Selected…
Nahua in Ancient Mesoamerica
This paper examines Nahua words found in both the Maya codices and the monumental texts. These words, spelled with syllabic signs, occur for the most part in contexts associated with foreign influence: Nahuatl deity names and words for “helmet,” “tribute,” and “heart.” One word—“and then”—is a conjunction used frequently in discourse. Sound correspondences between these loan words and the Nahua sources suggest an Eastern Nahua dialect as the like…
New Perspectives on the Late Classic Political History of Quirigua, Guatemala
This article summarizes the Late Classic history of the Maya city of Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala, emphasizing its relations with other polities. Quirigua's origins as a kingdom are traced to a.d. 426, when the rulers of nearby Copan established it as a colony. For the next three centuries, the site apparently mediated an intense interaction between Copan and Tikal. In a.d. 736, a personage from Tikal's rival city, Calakmul, acted with the current…
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…
Ritual Diversity and Divergence of Classic Maya Dynastic Traditions
To study the Classic Maya is to at once recognize the shared material representations and practices that give coherence to this cultural category as a unit of analysis, as well as to critically examine the diversity and idiosyncrasy of specific cultural traits within prehispanic Maya society. Maya hieroglyphic writing, in particular the tradition of inscribing texts and images on carved stone monuments, offers evidence for widespread and mutually…
From Inscribed Bodies to Distributed Persons
Following trends in anthropology, the human body has recently become an important topic of discourse in archaeology. While some anthropologists consider the body as a social metaphor or site of symbolic inscription, others have questioned the validity of approaches based on the dichotomization and hierarchization of the mind and body. Semasiology, in particular, offers an epistemologically sound basis for interpreting the body, by grounding agenc…
Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society
New Perspectives on the Late Classic Political History of Quirigua, Guatemala
This article summarizes the Late Classic history of the Maya city of Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala, emphasizing its relations with other polities. Quirigua's origins as a kingdom are traced to a.d. 426, when the rulers of nearby Copan established it as a colony. For the next three centuries, the site apparently mediated an intense interaction between Copan and Tikal. In a.d. 736, a personage from Tikal's rival city, Calakmul, acted with the current…
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art
Book Review| October 01 2002 The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceania, and North America Edited by Hope B. Werness. (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000. x + 360 pp., introduction, index of maps, bibliography, index.$50.00 cloth.) Matthew G. Looper Matthew G. Looper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 871–873. https://doi.…
Nahua in Ancient Mesoamerica
This paper examines Nahua words found in both the Maya codices and the monumental texts. These words, spelled with syllabic signs, occur for the most part in contexts associated with foreign influence: Nahuatl deity names and words for “helmet,” “tribute,” and “heart.” One word—“and then”—is a conjunction used frequently in discourse. Sound correspondences between these loan words and the Nahua sources suggest an Eastern Nahua dialect as the like…
From Inscribed Bodies to Distributed Persons
Following trends in anthropology, the human body has recently become an important topic of discourse in archaeology. While some anthropologists consider the body as a social metaphor or site of symbolic inscription, others have questioned the validity of approaches based on the dichotomization and hierarchization of the mind and body. Semasiology, in particular, offers an epistemologically sound basis for interpreting the body, by grounding agenc…
Lightning Warrior
Life at the Crossroads: Quirigua before K'ak' Tiliw *2. A Restive Vassal: The Early Reign of K'ak' Tiliw *3. Rebellion and Revival: The First Stelae of K'ak' Tiliw *4. Dreams of Power: Stelae F, D, and E *5. Foundation of the Cosmic House: Stelae C and A and Zoomorph B *6. In Honor of a Great Warrior: The Legacy of K'ak' Tiliw * Appendix A. Rulers of Quirigua * Appendix B. Historical Events Recorded in the Texts of Quirigua * Appendix C. Selected…
Early Maya Dress and Adornment
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…
Ritual Diversity and Divergence of Classic Maya Dynastic Traditions
To study the Classic Maya is to at once recognize the shared material representations and practices that give coherence to this cultural category as a unit of analysis, as well as to critically examine the diversity and idiosyncrasy of specific cultural traits within prehispanic Maya society. Maya hieroglyphic writing, in particular the tradition of inscribing texts and images on carved stone monuments, offers evidence for widespread and mutually…
Objects with Voices among the Ancient Maya
Dance Performances at Quiriguá
This chapter proposes a reconstruction of the dance performances that took place at the Classic Maya city of Quirigua (Izabal, Guatemala), in association with a large platform designated 1A-1. Using spatial analysis and the iconography and programming patterns of public sculpture associated with this platform, the chapter suggests that the platform and its sculpture program provided a setting for dance performances that took place during the fest…
From History to Cultural Diversity
Ritual networks and the structure of moral communities in Classic Maya society
Archaeology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Maya (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Latin American history and culture (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Geography (4 works)