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Caves, cenotes and Postclassic miniature shrines
Here are two “abstracts” for articles dedicated to an edited book about the anthropology of the Cochuah region, from the Middle Formative to the present. Caves and cenotes in the Cochuah region Located...
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Palaeoclimate change, ancient cave use, and contemporary resilience
Earlier this week I sent in the electronic report to one of the funds (The Swedish Research Council or Vetenskapsrådet) that has supported my “cave and climate” project. The project is not finished yet...
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2012: No rest for the wicked
The 2012circus never gives me any rest… Rob Bast has launched critique of the anthropologist/archaeologist John Hoopes. You can find that critique here. I guess you have to be a 2012er to “sense some...
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Maya women and the impact of colonialism
In her upcoming dissertation thesis “Journey to the East: Pilgrimage, Politics, and Gender at Postclassic Yucatan,” Shankari Patel discusses gender issues at the end of the Prehispanic period. She has...
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The extirpation of idolatry in Colonial Yucatan
The extirpation of idolatry (idolatria) in the Maya area is a sad history of religious intolerance. During Colonial times idolatria meant “the adoration or cult that gentiles give to creatures or...
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Colonial architecture in Semarang
Since I am affiliated with the project on the early modern town my family and I strolled through the old Dutch quarters of Semarang on the northern coast of Central Java. Semarang came into Dutch...
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Urban variation
Since I will be participating in Per Cornell’s project on the Early Modern Town next year I should mention that the project arranges a four days long symposium in February next year. I will probably...
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Stephen Colbert, order-words and the Colonial Maya
On facebook I saw this image and a quote of Stephen Colbert that reminds me of Deleuze and Guattari’s discussion of order-words in A Thousand Plateaus. Order-words refer to the capacity to create...
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The Anthropocene and Precolumbian land use
In a short paper that I sent away for review a couple of weeks ago I used a quote from McAnany and Yoffee (p 8) that in hindsight seems wrong. I wrote that “the humanability to impact environment on a...
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Colonial period mural found in a Guatemalan house
National Geographic reports on an interesting discovery of a possible 16th or 17th century mural in a house in Chajul, Guatemala. The figures on the mural wear a mixture of Maya and Spanish garb. Filed...
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The rotted town and the congregated town in early Colonial Yucatan, Mexico
Here is my abstract for the upcoming conference on Urban Variation at the University of Gothenburg in February next year. The rotted town and the congregated town in early Colonial Yucatan, Mexico The...
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Effects of the Spanish conquest at San Miguelito
Readers of this blog may recall that I earlier this year said that I would participate in Swedish project in cooperation with INAH in late 2012. It has been postponed to next year but the site where we...
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Still being productive
I am continuing to be productive. Before the end of September I plan to send off four new articles for review. These are the preliminary titles: Managing water, time and identity in the Prehispanic...
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Collapses in Brussels
The latest European Maya Conference in Brussels was the first one I have attended since 2006. I had a paper that was accepted for the Krakow conference four years ago but I retrieved it because the...
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Articles on miniature shrines and caves in the Cochuah region
I have uploaded excerpts of two texts on Academia.edu. The chapters will be found in the edited volume The Maya of the Cochuah Region: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Northern...
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