The “Borders” of British Honduras and the San Pedro Maya of Kaxil Uinic Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6033447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brett A Houk (0000-0002-2490-5870, Texas Tech University, corresponding author), Brooke Bonorden |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 554-565 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ancient Mesoamerica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-5361 • E-ISSN: 1469-1787 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0956536120000073 |
| OpenAlex | W3113991528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
Having fled the violence of the Caste War in Mexico (1847−1901), the San Pedro Maya occupied nearly two dozen small villages in the forests of western British Honduras and the northeastern Peten from the 1850s to the 1930s. With no physically demarcated borders between British Honduras and its neighbors present prior to the late 1880s, archival and archaeological data demonstrate that the San Pedro Maya moved freely through the lightly populated forests of the area. Ultimately, however, the San Pedro Maya's ambivalence toward the border between British Honduras and Guatemala provided the Belize Estate and Produce Company (BEC) with an excuse to evict them from their villages in the 1930s. In this article, we present archival information and archaeological data from Kaxil Uinic, a small San Pedro Maya village in British Honduras, to examine the following issues: the conflicting views of the border held by the San Pedro Maya and their colonial counterparts; the evidence for ties between Kaxil Uinic and Icaiche, Mexico; and the roles chicle smuggling and commercial logging had in the eviction of the San Pedro Maya from BEC lands
Ancient history · Archaeology · Dozen · Ethnology · Geography · Maya · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America
Unfinished conversations
Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Animal Use by San Pedro Maya and British Populations at Holotunich, Belize
Kaxil Uinic
Re-Centering the Narrative
Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay
Discourse and the production of territorial hegemony
Notes on a Part of the Western Frontier of British Honduras
British Honduras
British Honduras
The Strange Bedfellows of Northern Belize
The Caste War of Yucatán
Introduction to the Special Section
A Late Postclassic (ca. AD 1350-1521) Border Shrine at the Site of Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala
The Formation of a Colonial Society
Colonialism and Resistance in Belize
Enduring Conquests
The Diplomatic History of British Honduras, 1638-1901
The Formation of a Colonial Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |