{"product_id":"the-transnational-construction-of-mayanness-reading-modern-mesoamerica-through-us-archives-paperback","title":"The Transnational Construction of Mayanness: Reading Modern Mesoamerica Through Us Archives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFernando Armstrong-Fumero\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBen Fallaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transnational Construction of Mayanness\u003c\/i\u003e explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Expanding discussions of the neocolonial relationship between the US and its southern neighbors and emphasizing little-studied texts virtually inaccessible to those in Mexico and Central America, this is the first and only set of comparative studies to bring in US-based documentary collections as an enriching source of evidence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors tap documentary, ethnographic, and ethnoarchaeological sources from North America to expand established categories of fieldwork and archival research conducted within the national spaces of Mexico and Central America. A particularly rich and diverse set of case studies interrogate the historical processes that remove sources from their place of production in the \"field\" to the US, challenge the conventional wisdom regarding the geography of data sources that are available for research, and reveal a range of historical relationships that enabled US actors to shape the historical experience of Maya-speaking peoples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transnational Construction of Mayanness\u003c\/i\u003e offers rich insight into transnational relations and suggests new avenues of research that incorporate an expanded corpus of materials that embody the deep-seated relationship between Maya-speaking peoples and various gringo interlocutors. The work is an important bridge between Mayanist anthropology and historiography and broader literatures in American, Atlantic, and Indigenous studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e: David Carey, M. Bianet Castellanos, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Lydia Crafts, John Gust, Julio Cesar Hoil Gutierréz, Jennifer Mathews, Matthew Watson \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernando Armstrong-Fumero\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of anthropology at Smith College. His published work includes \u003ci\u003eElusive Unity\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as numerous articles and chapters on Mayan identity politics, cultural heritage policy, and the history of American anthropology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Fallaw\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Latin American studies at Colby College, Maine. He is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eState Formation in the Liberal Era\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForced Marches\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52620435390771,"sku":"9781646424269","price":66.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YjBQaTlWdmk2OGhWSjU2N0FqbnI3dz09.webp?v=1761937047","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-transnational-construction-of-mayanness-reading-modern-mesoamerica-through-us-archives-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}