Objetual Regime of the Maya during Classic period, a proposal

• Main Author: Antonio Jaramillo Arango
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016-06-01
• Series: Estudios de Cultura Maya
• Subjects: Arqueología recursiva, cuerpo dividual, régimen objetual, agencia, persona.
• Online Access: https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/estudios-cultura-maya/index.php/ecm/article/view/752

Within the academic archaeology of the 20th Century, objects were only considered as sources for understanding human action. Based on recent theoretic anthropological proposals, this paper proposes a recursive archaeology, that is, to include the Classic Maya concepts as part of our analysis in order to understand things as truly protagonists of social relationships. In the Maya area, objects have different ways of being in the world which have been identified by the archeology of the Classic period: person-objects, parts of a dividual body and machines. These three ways are explored here through archaeologic contexts and epigraphic texts with the aim of approaching the construction of reality of the Classic Maya. With a multidisciplinary analysis that includes archaeology, epigraphy, history, linguistics and anthropology, a high number of examples coming from different regions in the Maya area is examined. Thus, an overall view of this phenomenon is presented.