Foreigners among us : alterity and the making of ancient Maya societies /

"Assessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative component of identity, Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of Pre-Columbian Maya and questions not on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halperin, Christina T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Tropes of the foreigner : from famous royals to humble migrants
  • Captive performances : spectacles and the everyday
  • Cuisines and the relational making of people
  • Pilgrimages to foreign places and the acts of becoming
  • Looking in from afar : representations of Mayas.