BUILDING AN EARLY MAYA COMMUNITY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT CAOBAL, GUATEMALA

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Munson ◽  
Flory Pinzón
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Maya Architecture ◽  
Preclassic Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple

AbstractArchaeological investigations at the minor center of Caobal provide clues about local traditions of civic-ceremonial architecture as well as the relationship between these buildings and broader social and political transformations during the Preclassic period. The remains of pre-Hispanic Maya architecture represent a series of actions, decisions, and repeated practices, which contribute to long sequences of construction observed in the archaeological record. In particular, these data shed light on two major building campaigns that took place within Caobal's central precinct from about 850b.c.–a.d.250. By examining the materiality and temporality of minor temple architecture beyond primary centers of power, we examine how these buildings were constructed and, in turn, how these structures may have transformed the daily practices, identity politics, and religious values of pre-Hispanic Maya communities. Repeated construction of buildings in the temple precinct of Caobal provides a long and detailed archaeological record that allows us to reconstruct the history of material and social practices that shaped this local community beyond the Ceibal center.

scholarly journals Traces of French Culture in Palanga: The Historical Context of Palanga Botanical Park, Personalities, and Memory

Lituanistica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julija Paškevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Seaside Resort ◽  
French Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The article focuses on the origins of French culture in Palanga, a Lithuanian seaside resort, that go back to the years of the rule of the Tyszkiewicz family. The emphasis is put on Palanga Botanical Park (created before the end of the nineteenth century) as the most significant trace of French culture present in the resort and the seaside region until now. The specific symbols in the park created according to the will of the Counts Tyszkiewicz reflect the actualities of French culture. The importance of this space in the city is revealed, and Édouard François André’s principles of park creation are discussed in a new context. They are related to the dialogue that has been established between the residents of Palanga, the park, its creator, and his granddaughter Florence André since the first years of the independence of Lithuania. In order to give a meaning to Édouard André’s creation and to the relationship between the two countries, the correspondence between the great-granddaughter of the famous French landscape designer and the former director of the park, Antanas Sebeckas, is disclosed. It reflects the endeavour of these two personalities and its value for the international relations in representing French culture to the public. Florence André’s letters to the author of this article are also an important resource as she explains the reasons why the park plays an essential role in Palanga. It is shown how certain personal life events (Florence André’s wedding ceremony in Palanga, the park created by her great-grandfather) have become an inclusive part of the history of the town and represent intercultural relations and exchanges. The article is also based on some memories and narratives of the members of the local community in which the park features as a symbol and tradition of the city.

scholarly journals DAKWAH KULTURAL: RELASI ISLAM DAN BUDAYA LOKAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Eka Octalia
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Heterogeneous Societies ◽  
The Relationship

The da'wah propagation of Islam in the archipelago has shown such strong accommodation to the local traditions of the local community. This shows that the character of Indonesian Islam is able to dialogue with tradition and culture. This paper tries to examine the concept of cultural da'wah and the relationship between Islam and local culture. Cultural Da'wah is a da'wah that considers all forms of culture that are developing in society. Cultural propaganda is one of the da'wah approaches in dealing with heterogeneous societies of culture. Islam has an important role in facing cultural transformation. The process of Islamic dialogue with community traditions can be realized with cultural systems and mechanisms in dealing with local negotiations. From the display illustrates that in reality, Islam is in contact with local teachings (traditions) so as to form a new formulation of Islam and Islamic local culture.  

scholarly journals Historia jednego motywu – rzecz o związkach biżuterii z architekturą

2017 ◽  
pp. 221-249
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Wrześniak
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Marital Union

The hereby text is a short study on the relationship between architecture and jewellery. In the first part, it presents the history of occurrence of architectural forms in jewellery from antiquity to present day in the European culture. The second part delivers the examples of contemporary artefacts, particularly rings with microarchitecture. The analysis of the collected examples proves that architecture – its form, construction and detail − is a motive of decoration willingly used in jewellery design, often of a symbolic meaning related to the household or the temple (wedding rings, ritual rings). Nowadays, especially in the 21st century, microarchitecture in jewellery often emerges with reference to the place of origin, i.e. the famous building being, most frequently, the commemoration of a journey, able to bring back the memory of a visited city. The architectural jewellery, whose meanings and functions are the subject of the hereby study, has undergone many transformations throughout history. Even though it has transitioned from simple to complicated and decorative forms, from precious and rare to cheap and popular objects of mass production presenting the miniature replicas of buildings, the jewellery nearly always symbolises the city. Much less often the jewellery design occurs with reference to the metaphorical meanings of buildings as a representation of permanency (the tower in Alessandro Dari’s jewellery) or marital union (the house and the temple in Jewish rings).

“More Than a Place of Worship”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Padoongpatt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Global City ◽  
Buddhist Temple ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Community Space ◽  
Race And Place

This chapter examines food festivals at the Wat Thai of Los Angeles, the first and largest Thai Buddhist temple in the nation, which was established in 1979, as a window on the relationship between food, race, and place in the suburbs during the 1980s. It charts Thai American suburbanization in the East San Fernando Valley near Wat Thai and traces the history of the temple, including how it evolved into a community space that became popular for its weekend food festivals. The festivals, which attracted thousands of visitors, fostered a public-oriented Thai American suburban culture that was a claim for a "right to the global city." The festivals, however, sparked complaints from a group of nearby residents, who used zoning laws to try to shut them down. The chapter contends that the residents who opposed the festivals articulated a liberal multiculturalism to maintain the white spatial imaginary of the neighborhood.

THE ETHNOHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF CUAUHQUECHOLLAN, VALLEY OF ATLIXCO, MEXICO

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avis Mysyk ◽  
Lucero Morales Cano
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Postclassic Period ◽  
Preclassic Period ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Late Postclassic ◽  
History Of

AbstractDespite the commercial, economic, and military importance of the Valley of Atlixco to the history of Mesoamerica, it has not received as much attention from ethnohistorians and archaeologists as it warrants. This paper illustrates that importance by attempting to correlate different types of evidence from the sites of Atlixco and Cuauhquechollan. Atlixco—the settlement referred to in the ethnohistoric sources as Cuauhquechollan—was occupied continuously from the Early Preclassic period to the middle of the Late Postclassic period (a.d.1443), when it was relocated 20 km to the southwest (present-day Huaquechula). The new settlement retained the name, Cuauhquechollan, while Atlixco became referred to as Huehuecuauhquechollan (Old Cuauhquechollan). The evidence consists of a variety of ethnohistoric sources, the archaeological record (settlement patterns and ceramic materials), and the iconography of Late Postclassic sculptures and carvings located in and around Huaquechula, and in the immediate vicinity of the Valley of Atlixco. In spite of the limitations of the different types of evidence, the findings suggest that there are sufficient points of overlap to allow for a better understanding of the importance of the Valley of Atlixco and to provide the impetus for further research.

scholarly journals Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an–Jewish Relations

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Benedikt Hensel
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1–5, 6–23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1–6 that can function paradigmatically for the book as a whole. With regard to Chronicles, the focus lies on the theme of cult centralization, which became established in a particular manner through the reception of earlier tradition. The article concludes that both works, each in its own way, call forth critique of Samaria and the Samaritans in order to establish a separate Judean or Jewish group identity. The critique of the two works is dated to the late fourth or early third centuries BCE. As such, both are reckoned among the first witnesses heralding a shift in the perception of Samaria in biblical literature, namely toward a polemical and unequivocally negative perspective attested later in, for example, Josephus.

scholarly journals The Story of One Theme – on the Relationship Between Jewellery and Archi

2019 ◽  
Vol ENGLISH EDITION (1) ◽  
pp. 379-404
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Wrześniak
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Marital Union

The hereby text is a short study on the relationship between architecture and jewellery. In the first part, it presents the history of occurrence of architectural forms in jewellery from antiquity to present day in the European culture. The second part delivers the examples of contemporary artefacts, particularly rings with microarchitecture. The analysis of the collected examples proves that architecture – its form, construction and detail − is a motive of decoration willingly used in jewellery design, often of a symbolic meaning related to the household or the temple (wedding rings, ritual rings). Nowadays, especially in the 21st century, microarchitecture in jewellery often emerges with reference to the place of origin, i.e. the famous building being, most frequently, the commemoration of a journey, able to bring back the memory of a visited city. The architectural jewellery, whose meanings and functions are the subject of the hereby study, has undergone many transformations throughout history. Even though it has transitioned from simple to complicated and decorative forms, from precious and rare to cheap and popular objects of mass production presenting the miniature replicas of buildings, the jewellery nearly always symbolises the city. Much less often the jewellery design occurs with reference to the metaphorical meanings of buildings as a representation of permanency (the tower in Alessandro Dari’s jewellery) or marital union (the house and the temple in Jewish rings).

Intersectionality and Marxism: A Critical Historiography

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Bohrer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Critical Historiography ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractIn recent years, there has been renewed interest in conceptualising the relationship between oppression and capitalism as well as intense debate over the precise nature of this relationship. No doubt spurred on by the financial crisis, it has become increasingly clear that capitalism, both historically and in the twenty-first century, has had particularly devastating effects for women and people of colour. Intersectionality, which emerged in the late twentieth century as a way of addressing the relationship between race, gender, sexuality and class, has submitted orthodox Marxism to critique for its inattention to the complex dynamics of various social locations; in turn Marxist thinkers in the twenty-first century have engaged with intersectionality, calling attention to the impoverished notion of class and capitalism on which it relies. As intersectionality constitutes perhaps the most common way that contemporary activists and theorists on the left conceive of identity politics, an analysis of intersectionality’s relationship to Marxism is absolutely crucial for historical materialists to understand and consider. This paper looks at the history of intersectionality’s and Marxism’s critiques of one another in order to ground a synthesis of the two frameworks. It argues that in the twenty-first century, we need a robust, Marxist analysis of capitalism, and that the only robust account of capitalism is one articulated intersectionally, one which treats class, race, gender and sexuality as fundamental to capitalist accumulation.

scholarly journals CONSERVATION STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY AND VALUE OF THE HERITAGE TEMPLE IN SIBANG VILLAGE (CASE STUDY: PURA DALEM DASAR, DESA SIBANG)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Gede Raka Gunawarman ◽  
Ni Putu Ratih Pradyaswari Anasta Putri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Government Development

As one of Balinese architectural works that have a sacred function as a place of worship for Hindus, the construction of a temple will not be separated from the local wisdom of the community. Temple is often regarded as an identity of a region, cultural heritage, and a hereditary historical heritage that manifested as an architectural work. Although considered as a historical heritage, the absence of adequate historical documentation regarding temples in Bali causes changes that often do not match the story and the initial appearance of the temple. Many factors can be said to be the cause of the temple change, e.g.: (1) the community's desire to make temple repairs practical and fast; (2) understanding of the local community who are still minimal in the rules of building a temple; (3) there are no clear rules regarding the construction of a temple; (4) people's insensitivity to their identity; and (5) the absence of adequate documentation for the process of building a temple.Changes of a temple are also caused by government development funds, so many temples are dismantled and changed "forcefully" which unconsciously destroys the order of values and traces of the history of the temple. Temples that have historical values are instead replaced with new or contemporary models that are not necessarily based on original literature from the previous ancestral order. Seeing this phenomenon, researchers believe the need for preservation efforts through conservation strategies so that changes can be overcome and controlled according to their portion. Keyword : conservation strategis, historical temple, identity

Archaeology of Buddhism in Asia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Prabha Ray
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Record ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Single Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
Central Organization

The eightfold path shown by the Buddha in the middle of the first millennium bce was founded on wisdom, morality, and concentration. Like other contemporary Indic religions, Buddha dhamma had no central organization, nor did it follow a single text as its guiding principle. Its core principle was refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, though as it expanded across Asia, it absorbed local traditions, responded to historical factors, and evolved philosophically. The physical manifestations of the dhamma appeared in the archaeological record at least two hundred to three hundred years later, in the form of inscriptions, stūpas, images, and other objects of veneration. Relic and image worship were important factors in the expansion of Buddhism across the subcontinent and into other parts of Asia. This essay is framed. Four themes are significant in the archaeology of Buddhism: the history of archaeology in Asia with reference to Buddhism; defining a chronology for the historical Buddha and sites associated with Buddhism; identifying regional specificities and contexts for Buddhist sites as they emerged across Asia; and finally addressing the issue of interconnectedness and interlinkages between the various sites within the Buddhist sāsana. The active participation of learned monks and nuns in the stūpa cult and their mobility across Asia is a factor that is underscored in this paper.

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