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Political Interactions among Social Actors: Spatial Organization at the Classic Maya Polity of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexicó

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kenichiro Tsukamoto ,
Javier López Camacho ,
Luz Evelia Campana Valenzuela ,
Hirokazu Kotegawa  and
Octavio Q. Esparza Olguín
Kenichiro Tsukamoto
Affiliation:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 1508366, (kenichirotsu@hotmail.com)
Javier López Camacho
Affiliation:
Licenciatura en Arqueología, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, D.F., C.P.14030, (javierlopezl955@yahoo.com.mx)
Luz Evelia Campana Valenzuela
Affiliation:
México, D.F., C.P. 03700, (luzibell@prodigy.net.mx)
Hirokazu Kotegawa
Affiliation:
Licenciatura en Arqueología, Facultad de Antropología, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, C.P. 91020, (kote0501@hotmail.com)
Octavio Q. Esparza Olguín
Affiliation:
Estudios Mesoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico D.F., C.P.04510, (ocesol@gmail.com)
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Abstract

This article examines the significance of outlying groups in the spatial organization of Classic Maya settlements. The relative scarcity of textual records concerning outlying groups has often made it difficult for researchers to analyze in detail the political interactions between individuals associated with these groups and the royal authority. The recent discovery of a hieroglyphic stairway at the Guzmán Group, an outlying group of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico, provides an exceptional opportunity for understanding the constitutive process of spatial organization during the Late and Terminal Classic periods (ca. A.D. 600-900). Epigraphic studies of the Guzmán Group stairway have identified a main individual who emphasized his genealogical ties to lakam (banner-bearer) officials and his political relationship with foreign rulers of Copán and Calakmul. The results of archaeological and epigraphic studies suggest that the Guzmán Group was a locus for negotiating power and ideology among different social actors.

Resumen

Resumen

En el presente artículo se examina el proceso de formacíon de los grupos arquitectónicos apartados de los núcleos urbanos en la organización espacial de las entidades políticas mayas durante el período Clásico (ca. 250-900 d.C). La escasez de estos grupos discretos con registros epigráficos que mencionen a lospersonajes que los habitaron ha limitado el conocimiento sobre la interactión político entre dichos adores con la autoridad real. El reciente descubrimiento de una escalinata jeroglifica en un grupo discreto designado como Grupo Guzmán, ubicado 1,3 km al norte del sitio arqueológico de El Palmar, ofrece una excelente oportunidad para entender el proceso constitutive de la organización espacial de esta entidad política maya durante el Clásico Tardío y Terminal (ca. 600-900 d.C). En los textos epigráficos de la escalinata se identificó un protagonista que enfatiza su vínculo genealógico con oficiales que poseen el título de lakam (abanderado) y sus nexos políticos con gobernantes de Copán y Calakmul. Las investigaciones arqueológicas y epigráficas sugieren que el Grupo Guzmán era un espacio político en donde los diferentes adores sociales negociaban poder e ideología.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 200 - 220
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