CLASSIC LOWLAND MAYA (Culture Keyword)
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Costly signaling theory indicates that highly visible acts of public generosity and display, which exact costs not easily recouped, however, can provide social benefits to those engaged in such acts. Such signaling is associated with the strength or fitness of the provider. Analyzing slipped and fineware ceramics in display contexts, and obsidian use and architecture, this presentation explores how Maya elites and rural sub-elites engaged in costly signaling and modified their actions by cost...
Mayapan Agrarian (Rural) Life Project Informe 2015 Season (2018)
Report to INAH of 2015 seasons that investigated rural houses of the Terminal Classic and Postclassic period in the Mayapan area (outside of the city walls). A follow-up project to the 2013 LiDAR season (in Spanish).
A Polychrome Modeled Narrative of Late to Terminal Classic Power at Lamanai, Belize (2001)
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Ritual Exchange and the Fourth Obligation (2010)
Employing Mauss’s notion of the fourth obligation, giving to the gods, this article develops a formulation of ritual exchange to examine the interactive nature of ritual practice. As a modality of interaction, ritual exchange is contingent upon enduring normative beliefs, such as perceived obligations to spiritual entities, and the social positions of ritual practitioners. Consequently, ritual exchange evinces not only the material and immaterial nature of sacred beliefs but also the...