Ancient Maya gender identity and relations
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Ancient Maya gender identity and relations
Bergin & Garvey, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The first book to examine how the ancient Maya defined gender. Contributors explain what it meant to be male and female. They show how gender was experienced and what the bases were for gender designations. They demonstrate how gender relations affected other areas of Mayan life, such as the arts, cosmology, economics, politics, religion, and social structure. And they analyze the changes in Mayan gender relations and identities that were fostered by evolving historical systems.
There was no single Mayan polity nor was there a unitary cultural approach. Certain similarities in culture account for the observation of a general commonality among the ancient Maya, but there clearly were significant differences between Mayan sites, within the same site over time, and even between social sectors at the same site in any given time-this is no less true for ancient Maya gender identity and relations. Thus, the authors seek to explain why emphasis upon bilateral inheritance of power and prerogative was emphasized in artwork at some periods and some sites and not at others. Avoiding the vain attempt to provide a single explanation, they seek to offer a clearer sense of the richness of their topic.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Amelia M. Trevelyan and Lowell S. Gustafson Multiplicity and Discourse in Classic Maya Gender Relations by Marvin Cohodas Shared Gender Relations: Early Mesoamerica and the Maya by Lowell S. Gustafson Household and State in Prehispanic Maya Society Gender, Identity, and Practice by Julia A. Hendon The Gendered Architecture of Uxmal by Amelia M. Trevelyan and Heather W. Forbes Mother-Father Kings by Lowell S. Gustafson Maya Corn Gods and the Male/Female Principle by Karen Bassie-Sweet The Popol Vuh and the Decline of Maya Women's Status by Beatriz Barba De Pina Chan A Divine Couple's Gender Roles and Its Cardinal Relations in the Group of the Cross, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico by Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia Holy Mother Earth and Her Flowery Skirt: The Role of the Female Earth Surface in Maya Political and Ritual Performance by Carolyn Tate Female and Male: The Ideology of Balance and Renewal in Elite Costuming among the Classic Period Maya by Kent Reilly Desiring Women: Classic Maya Sexualities by Rosemary A. Joyce Conclusion by Amelia M. Trevelyan and Lowell S. Gustafson Bibliography Index
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