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Revisioning the Maya World: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching

On-Site in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize: June 12 - July 17, 2011

DAILY SCHEDULE

Note: Morning seminars meet 9:00 - Noon, unless otherwise announced; transportation and
fieldtrip times will be announced daily. Readings marked as [T] are required texts to be acquired
by participants. Readings marked as [R] for e-Reserve or [R*] for e-Resources will be posted on
a SAKAI project site through Johns Hopkins University to which participants will be given
access. The Institute required Text List is appended to this Daily Schedule. Scheduled daily
readings do not reference basic Institute texts such as Coe's The Maya, The Popol Vuh, or Joyce
Kelly's Archaeological Guides, which are to be accessed and used as appropriate throughout the
Institute.

Sun June 12 Participants arrive Villahermosa, Mexico.

Informal welcome by project directors,
Overnight: Villahermosa.

Mon June 13 Morning seminar with Karl Taube: Olmec and Maya iconography: focus on the
Maize god.
Afternoon seminar (3 - 5 p.m.) with Karl Taube: issues in Maya iconography.
Reception/dinner at 7 p.m. Overnight Villahermosa.
Reading:
• Karl Taube, "Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Paradise Among the
Classic Maya," RES 45 (Spring 2004): 69- 98. [R*]
• Karl Taube, “The Olmec Maize God: the Face of Corn in Formative Mesoamerica,” RES 29/30
(Spring /Autumn 1996): 39-81. [R]

Tues June 14 Guided study visit to La Venta Olmec Park led by Karl Taube.
Afternoon free.
Overnight Villahermosa.
Reading:
• F. Kent Reilly, “The Landscape of Creation: Architecture, Tomb, and Monument Placement at
the Olmec Site of la Venta.” In Heart of Creation/ the Mesoamerican World and the
Lagacy of Linda Schele, ed. Andrea Stone. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2002. 34-
65. [R]
• Rebeca González Lauck, "Venta, La (Tabasco, Mexico)," Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and
Central America/ An Encyclopedia, ed. Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster. New
York: Garland, 2001. 798-801. [R]

Wed June 15 Bus to Palenque.

Afternoon Seminar with Jan de Vos: Colonial history of Chiapas.
Overnight Palenque.
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Reading:
• Jan de Vos, "The Mayas in Modern Times." In Maya, ed. Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza
& Enrique Nalda. Bompiani:1999.495-505. [R]
• "Monique J. Lemaitre Interviews Dr. Jan de Vos about the San Andres Talks" (Feb 1996):
<http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/accounts/interview_SA_feb97.html > [R]
• Victoria Bricker, The Indian Christ, the Indian King/ The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth
and Ritual. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981: 55-69; and 177-81. [R]

Th June 16 Morning Seminar with Jan de Vos: Chiapas history and Maya identity.
Afternoon visit to archaeological site and introduction to Palenque by Alfonso
Morales and Julie Miller.
Overnight Palenque.
Reading:
• R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern
Mexico. Austin: University of Texas, 2001: chaps. 2 & 5. [R]
• John Womack, Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader. NY: The New Press, 1999: chap.
27, pp. 304-315; & chap. 32, pp. 363-370. [R]
• June. Nash, Mayan Visions: The Quest for Global Autonomy in an Age of Globalization.
Routledge 2001. [Recommended]

Fri June 17 Full day at Palenque site with Alfonso Morales and Julie Miller.
Evening at PARI archives.
Overnight Palenque.
Reading:
• David Stuart and George Stuart, Palenque, Eternal City of the Maya. (Thames and Hudson,
2008). [T]
• Mary Ellen Miller and Simon Martin, Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. Fine Arts Museum of
San Francisco: Thames and Hudson, 2004. Chap. 6: “Palenque: an Exemplary Maya
Court,” 198-237. [R]

Sat June 18 Full day at Palenque site with Alfonso Morales and Julie Miller, including visit
to Palenque Museum.
Overnight Palenque.
Reading:

• N. Grube and S. Martin, "Palenque," in Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens. London:
Thames & Hudson, 2008: 154-175. [T]
• Linda Schele and Peter Mathews, The Code of Kings (NY: Scribner, 1998): chap. 3,
"Palenque: Hanab-Pakal's Tomb": 95-132. [R]
• Alfonso Morales and Julie Miller, “The Discoveries in Temple 19, Palenque.” In Courtly Art of
the Ancient Maya., ed. Mary Ellen Miller and Simon Martin (Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco: Thames and Hudson, 2004): 259-61. [R]
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Sun June 19 Check out of Palenque; Field trip to Bonampak with Alfonso Morales and Julie
Miller.
Overnight Escudo de Jaguar.
Reading:
• Mary Ellen Miller, “The Willfulness of Art: the Case of Bonampak.” RES 42 (Autumn 2002):
8-23. [R]
• Mary Ellen Miller, “Understanding the Murals of Bonampak.” In Maya/ Divine Kings of the
Rain Forest, ed. Nicolai Grube. Cologne/Oxford: Könemann, 2001. 234-43. [R]

Mon June 20 Field trip by boat to Yaxchilan with Alfonso Morales and Julie Miller.
Overnight Escudo de Jaguar.
Reading:
• S. Martin and N. Grube, "Yaxchilán," in Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens (London:
Thames & Hudson, 2008): 116-137. [T]
• Carolyn Tate, Yaxchilan: the Design of a Maya Ceremonial City. Austin: University of Texas,
1992: chaps. 3 & 5, and "Conclusions." [R]

Tues June 21 Transfer by boat across Usumacinta River to Bethel, Guatemala; bus to Flores
and Tikal.
Evening seminar (5- 7 p.m.) with William Saturno: Peten archaeology.
Overnight Tikal. We are on a meal plan (B/L/D) while we are in Tikal.
Reading:
• Saturno, William A., David Stuart and Boris Beltran. “Early Maya Writing at San Bartolo,
Guatemala.” Sciencexpress < www.sciencexpress.org/ 5 January 2006/ Page
1/10.1126/science. 1121745 >. [R]
• Saturno, William. "Centering the Kingdom, Centering the King: Maya Creation and
Legimization at San Bartolo." In The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican
Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery, ed. William L. Fash
and Leonardo López Luján. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
and Collection, 2009. 111-134. [R]
• Peter Harrison. The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City. Thames and Hudson,
1999: chaps. 1-3. [T]
• Dennis Tedlock, “Introduction,” “Early Mayan Writing” and “The Alphabet Arrives in
the Lowlands." In 2000 Years of Mayan Literature (University of California
Press, 2010): 1-12; 25-31; 239-248. [R]

Wed June 22 Morning field trip to Uaxactun with Bill Saturno.

Afternoon on site in Tikal with Bill Saturno.
Overnight Tikal.
Reading:
• Stuart, David. "'The Arrival of Strangers': Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya
History," In Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage, edited by Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay
Jones and Scott Sessions (Boulder: University of Colorado press, 2000): 465-514. [R]
• Peter Harrison, The Lords of Tikal. Thames and Hudson, 1999: chaps. 4-7. [T]
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Th June 23 Morning study tour of Tikal with Bill Saturno.

Afternoon at Tikal Museums.
Overnight in Tikal.
Reading:
• Peter Harrison, The Lords of Tikal. Thames and Hudson, 1999: chaps. 8-13. [T]
• Juan Antonio Valdés and Federico Fahsen, “Disaster in Sight: The Terminal Classic at Tikal
and Uaxactun.” In Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and
Transformation, ed. by Arthur Demarest, Prudence M. Rice and Don S.Rice. Boulder:
(University of Colorado, 2004): Chap. 8, pp. 140-161. [R]

Fri June 24 Free day at Tikal for individual exploration and photography.
Overnight in Tikal.

Sat June 25 Drive Tikal to San Ignacio, Belize.

Study visit to Xunantunich with Jaime Awe.
Evening Seminar, 5 - 7 p.m. with Jaime Awe at San Ignacio.
Overnight San Ignacio.
Reading:
• Jaime Awe, "Architectural Manifestations of Power and Prestige: Examples from classic
Period Monumental Architecture at Cahal Pech, Xunantunich and Caracol,
Belize," Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 5 (2008): 159- 173. [R*]
• Jaime J. Awe, Maya Cities and Sacred Caves: A Guide to the Maya Sites of Belize. 2nd ed.
(Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize: Cubola Productions, 2007): "Xunantunich," 50-
55. [R]
• Wendy Ashmore, Jason Yaeger, & Cynthia Robin, “Commoner Sense: Late Terminal Classic
Social Strategies in the Xunantunich Area.” In Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands:
Collapse, Transition, and Transformation, ed. by Arthur Demarest, Prudence M. Rice
and Don S. Rice. (Boulder: University of Colorado, 2004): Chap. 14, pp. 302-323. [R]

Sun June 26 Study visit to Cahal Pech with Jaime Awe.

Afternoon free at San Ignacio.
Overnight San Ignacio.
Reading:
• James F. Garber and Jaime J. Awe, "A Terminal Early Formative Symbol System in the
Maya Lowlands: the Iconography of the Cunil Phase (1100-900 BC) at Cahal
Pech," Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 6 (2009): 151- 159. [R*]
• Jaime J. Awe, Maya Cities and Sacred Caves: A Guide to the Maya Sites of Belize. 2nd ed.
(Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize: Cubola Productions, 2007): "Cahel Pech," 42-45. [R]
• Paul Healy, Jaime Awe, et al., “Cahel Pech: the Middle Formative Period,” in The Ancient
Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Work, ed. James
Garber (2004): 103-124. [R]
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Mon June 27 Drive to Orange Walk via Belize Valley sites with Jaime Awe.
Overnight Orange Walk.
Reading:
• Jaime J. Awe and Christopher G.B. Helmke, "Alive and Kicking in the 3rd to 6th
Centuries A.D.: Defining the Early Classic in the Belize River Valley," Research
Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 2 (2005): 39- 52. [R*]
• Christophe Helmke and Jaime Awe, "Ancient Maya Territorial Organization of Central
Belize: Confluence of Archaeological and Epigraphic Data," 1- 32 (forthcoming).
[R*]
• The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Work, ed. James
Garber. University Press of Florida, 2004. "Introduction," by Arlen Chase and James
Garber: pp. 1-14; and "Conclusion," by Diane Chase: pp. 335-49. [R]

Tues June 28 Full day river trip to Lamanai with Jaime Awe.
Overnight Orange Walk.
Reading:
• Jaime J. Awe, Maya Cities and Sacred Caves: A Guide to the Maya Sites of Belize. 2nd
ed. (Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize: Cubola Productions, 2007): "Lamanai,"
pp. 24-29. [R]
• David M. Pendergast, Lamanai Stela 9: the Archaeological Context,"
http://www.mesoweb.com/bearc/cmr/20.html [R]
• Dorie Reents-Budet,"The Iconography of Lamanai Stela 9."
http://www.mesoweb.com/bearc/cmr/22.html [R]

Wed June 29 Orange Walk to Chetumal, Mexico.

Evening seminar (5 - 7 p.m.) with Nicholas Hopkins.
Overnight Chetumal.
Reading:
• David Potter, Maya Architecture of the Central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (New Orleans:
Tulane University: Middle American Research Institute, 1977), Publication 44:
"Introduction," pp. 1-6; "Beacn," pp. 7-11; "Chicanna," pp. 62-73; "Conclusions,"
pp. 87-91. [R]
• Karl Ruppert and John H. Denison, Jr. Archaeological Reconnaissance in Campeche,
Quintana Roo, and Peten (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.
1943). Publication 543: "Introduction" and "Summary," pp. 1-10; "Calakmul," pp.
13-23; "Xpuhil," pp. 87-88. [R]
• Harry Pollock, "Architecture of the Maya Lowlands." In Gordon R. Willey, editor,
Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 2: Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica,
Part I (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965): 378-440. [Recommended]

Th June 30 Full day visiting Rio Bec sites Kohunlich, Becan, Chicanna and Xpuhil,
with Nicholas Hopkins.
Overnight Chicanna.
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Reading:
• Jack Eaton, "Chicanná, an Elite Center in the Río Bec Region," in Preliminary Reports
on Archaeological Investigations in the Río Bec Area, Campeche, Mexico,
compiled by Richard E. W. Adams (New Orleans: Tulane University: Middle
American Research Institute, 1974), Publication 31: pp. 133-138. [R]
• Ramón Carrasco Vargas, Sylviane Boucher, Paula Alvarez González, Vera Tiesler Blos,
Valeria García Vierna, Renata García Moreno, and Javier Vázquez Negrete,
"A Dynastic Tomb from Campeche, Mexico: New Evidence on Jaguar Paw, a
Ruler of Calakmul." Latin American Antiquity 10.1 (1999): 47-58. [R]

Fri July 1 Optional study visit to Calakmul with Nicholas Hopkins and project co-director
Laraine Fletcher.
Participants can opt to stay at hotel and walk to Chicanna site for self-guided visit.
Overnight Chicanna.
Reading:
• Braswell, G.S., J. Gunn, M del Rosario Dominguez, W.Folan, L. Fletcher, A. Morales and
M. Glasock, "Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche.” In The
Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation.
Ed. A. Demarest, P. Rice and D. Rice (University of Colorado Press, 2004): 162-
194. [R]
• Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube, “Maya Superstates,” Archaeology 48.6 (1995): 41-46. [R]
• Simon Martin, “Of Snakes and Bats: Shifting Identities at Calakmul, ”The PARI
Journal 6.2 (2005): 5-15. [R]
• Ramón Carrasco Vargas, Verónica A. Vázquez López, and Simon Martin, "Daily Life of
the Ancient Maya Recorded on Murals at Calakmul, Mexico." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science 106.46 (November 17, 2009): 19245-19249. [R]
• Mary Ellen Miller, "Maya Painting, in a Major and Minor Key." Anales del Instituto de
Investigaciones Estéticas, 28.89 (2006): 59-70. [R]
• Marcus, Joyce. The Inscriptions of Calakmul: Royal Marriage at a Maya City in
Campeche, Mexico. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical
Report 21. Ann Arbor, 1993. [Recommended]

Sat July 2 Overland Chicanna to Campeche with Nicholas Hopkins. En route site visits to
Hochob and Tabasqueña.
Overnight Campeche.
Reading:
• Nicholas A. Hopkins and J. Kathryn Josserand, "The Characteristics of Chol (Mayan)
Traditional Narrative," in Beatriz Garza Cuarón and Paulette Levy, editors,
Homenaje a Jorge A. Suarez; Lingüística indoamericana e hispánica (Mexico, D.
F.: El Colegio de Mexico, 1990): 297-314. [R]
• J. Kathryn Josserand, "The Missing Heir at Yaxchilán: Literary Analysis of a Maya
Historical Puzzle," Latin American Antiquity 18.3 (2007): 295-312. [R]
• J. Kathryn Josserand, "Participant Tracking in Hieroglyphic Texts: Who Was That
Masked Man?" Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 5.1 (1995): 65-89. [R]
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• J. Kathryn Josserand, "The Narrative Structure of Hieroglyphic Texts at Palenque," in

Merle Greene Robertson, editor, Sixth Palenque Round Table, 1986 (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991): 12-31. [R]

Sun July 3 Visit to Campeche Museum.

Balance of day free.
Overnight Campeche.
Mon July 4 Morning seminar with Jeff Kowalski on Puuc Maya architecture.
Afternoon free.
Overnight Campeche.
Reading:
• Jeff Karl Kowalski, "Uxmal and the Puuc Zone: Monumental Architecture, Sculpture
Facades and Political Power in the Terminal Classic Period," in Maya [catalogue of
an exhibition of Maya art at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice], Ed. by Peter Schmidt,
Mercedes de la Garza, and Enrique Nalda (Bompiani: CNCA-INAH and RCS Libri,
Milan, 1998): 400-425. [R]
• Jeff Karl Kowalski and Nicholas P. Dunning, "The Architecture of Uxmal: The Symbolics
of Statemaking at a Puuc Maya Regional Capital," in Mesoamerican Architecture as
a Cultural Symbol, edited by Jeff Kowalski (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999): 274-297. [R]

Tues July 5 Campeche to Uxmal. Site visit with Jeff Kowalski.

Meetings with Puuc artisans.
Overnight Hacienda Uxmal.
Reading:
• Mary Katherine Scott and Jeff Karl Kowalski, "Imaging the Maya: Carvings, Carvers,
Contexts, and Messages," in Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood
Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico, edited by Jeff Karl Kowalski
(DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009): 3-82, 91-104. [R]
• Aline Magnoni, Traci Ardren, and Scott Hutson, "Tourism in the Mundo Maya: Inventions
and (Mis)Representations of Maya Identities and Heritage," Archaeologies: Journal
of the World Archaeological Congress 3.3 (2007): 353-383. [R]

Wed July 6 Field study at Labna and Sayil with Jeff Kowalski; visit to Mani.
Lunch included this day.
Overnight at Hacienda Uxmal.
Reading:

Kelli Carmean, Nicholas Dunning, and Jeff Karl Kowalski, "High Times in the Hill
Country: A Perspective from the Terminal Classic Puuc Region," in Terminal
Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation, edited
by Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice (Boulder: University
Press of Colorado, 2004): 424-449. [R]
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• Ralph Roys, "Conquest Sites and the Subsequent Destruction of Maya Architecture in
the Interior of Northern Yucatán," Contributions to American Anthropology and
History, 11 (1952): 129-143. [R]
• Richard and Rosalind Perry, Maya Missions/ Exploring the Spanish Colonial Churches
of Yucatán (1988): 114-18, 126-34, 189-97. [R]

Th July 7 Uxmal to Coba by way of Valladolid. Lunch included this day.

Late afternoon seminar (4- 7 p.m.) with Matthew Restall: Maya survivalism:
16th century to the Caste War.
Overnight Coba.
Reading:
• Matthew Restall, The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850. Stanford Univ.
Press, 1997. Part Two: “Society and Culture”: pp. 87-165. [R]
• Matthew Restall, Maya Conquistador (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998). Chaps. 5 & 6: pp. 82-128. [R]

Fri July 8 Morning free.

Late afternoon seminar (4-7 p.m.) with Amara Solari: cultural history of 16th
century Yucatan.
Overnight Coba.
Reading:
• Amara Solari, “Circles of Creation: The Invention of Maya Cartography in Early Colonial
Yucatán,” The Art Bulletin XCII.3 (September 2010): 154-168. [R]
• Amara Solari, "Reinterpreting Sacrality Among the Ancient Maya: Recent Works on the
Deified Nature of Death, Dance, and Geography," Ethnohistory 57.3 (2010): 467-470.
[R*]

Sat July 9 Morning: group admission to Coba archaeological site.

Late afternoon Seminar (5- 7 p.m.) with Matthew Restall and Amara Solari on
2012.
Overnight Coba.
Reading:
• Matthew Restall and Amara Solari, 2012 and the End of the World (Rowman and Littlefield,
2011). [T]

Recommended:
• Aveni, Anthony. The End of Time: the Maya Mystery of 2012 (University of Colorado,
2009). [Recommended]
• Mark Van Stone, 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya (San Diego: Tlacaél
Press, 2010). [Recommended]

Sun July 10 Morning seminar with Matthew Restall: ethnohistory of Yucatan and Belize.
Afternoon free.
Overnight Coba.
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Reading:
• Grant Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico,1989).
Chaps. 2 & 5: pp. 25-53 and 125-154. [R]

Mon July 11 Study visit to Tulum. Site visit with Rach Cobos and Jeff Kowalski.
Overnight Coba.
Reading:
• Rafael Cobos, "Seaports of the Maya," In Encyclopedia of the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine in Non-western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, Part 19
(Berlin/ Heidelberg/ New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008): pp. 1989-1992. [R*]
• Ana Juárez, "Ongoing Struggles: Mayas and Immigrants in Tourist Era Tulum," The Journal of
Latin American Anthropology 7.1 (2002): 34-67. [R]
• Cameron Walker, Heritage or Heresy/ Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera.
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009): chaps. 3, 5 & 6. [Recommended}

Tu July 12 Coba to Chichen Itza; en route study visit to Ek Balam with Rach Cobos and
Jeff Kowalski. Lunch is included this day.
Overnight Chichen Itza.
Reading:
• Rafael Cobos Palma, "Chichén Itzá: Settlement and Hegemony during the Terminal
Classic Period." In The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse,
Transition, and Transformation, ed. Demarest, Arthur Andrew, Rice, Prudence
M. and Rice, Don Stephen. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004). [R]
• Rafael Cobos Palma, "Multepal or Centralized Kingship? New Evidence on Governmental
Organization at Chichén Itzá." In Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the
Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by Jeff Kowalski and
Cynthia Kristan-Graham. (Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection, 2007): 315-343. [R]
• Quetzil E. Castañeda. "Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography
in a Transcultural Tourist Art World," NAPA Bulletin 23 (2005): 87-118. [R]
• Quetzil E. Castañeda, In the Museum of Maya Culture:Touring Chichén Itzá
(University of Minnesota Press, 1996): chap. 7: pp. 203-231. [R]

Wed July 13 Full day study-visit at Chichén Itzá with Rach Cobos and Jeff Kowalski:
Old and New Chichén; the "Toltec/Maya" phenomenon. Tourism at
Chichén Itzá.
Overnight at Chichén Itzá.
Reading:
• Cobos Palma, Rafael. "The Relationship between Tula and Chichén Itzá: Influences or
Interactions?" In Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands: New Approaches to
Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula, ed. Jennifer Mathews and Bethany Morrison.
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006): pp. 173- 183. [R]
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• Jeff Kowalski and Cynthia Kristan-Graham, "Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan: Changing
Perspectives on a Recurring Problem in Mesoamerican Archaeology and Art
History," in Jeff Kowalski and Cynthia Kristan-Graham, eds. Twin Tollans: Chichén
Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World
(Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007): 85-127. [R]
• Jeff Kowalski, "What's 'Toltec' at Uxmal and Chichén Itzá? Merging Maya and
Mesoamerican Worldviews and World Systems in Terminal Classic to Early
Postclassic Yucatán," in Jeff Kowalski and Cynthia Kristan-Graham, eds. Twin
Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican
World (Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007): 251-
313. [R]
• William M. Ringle, "On the Political Organization of Chichen Itza," Ancient
Mesoamerica [Cambridge University Press]15 (2004): 167-218. [R]

Th July 14 Morning on site at Chichén Itzá with Rach Cobos and Jeff Kowalski.
Afternoon visit to Balankanche.
Overnight Chichen Itza.
Reading:
• Guillermo de Anda, "Sacrifice and Ritual Body Mutilation in Postclassic Maya Society.
The Taphonomy of the Human Remains from Chichén Itza´s Cenote Sagrado," in
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient
Maya Society, edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina, (New York: Springer,
2007): 190-208. [R]
• Linnea Wren, "Chichén Itzá: the Site and its People," in Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya
Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichén Itzá, ed. Clemency C. Coggins and
Orrin Shane (Austin: U of Texas P, 1984): 13-22. [R]
• Linda Schele and Peter Mathews, The Code of Kings (NY: Scribner, 1998): chap.
6, "Chichén Itzá: the Great Ballcourt." [R]

Fri July 15 Depart for Mérida; en route tour of Izamal.

Overnight Mérida.
Reading:
• Richard and Rosalind Perry, Maya Missions/ Exploring the Spanish Colonial
Churches of Yucatán (1988): 92-105; 201-207. [R]

Sat July 16 Morning seminar (9 - 12) in Merida with Emilio del Valle-Escalante: issues of
Maya identity.
Afternoon (3 - 5 p.m.) roundtable with local Maya writers, organized by Emilio
del Valle-Escalante and Miguel Guemez.
Evening: Farewell dinner.
Reading:
• Emilio del Valle-Escalante, Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in
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Guatemala Coloniality, Modernity, and Identity Politics (Santa Fe, N.M.: SAR
Press, 2009): Chap 1: "Introduction: Globalization, Coloniality, and Social
Movements" (1-17); from Chap. 2: “Luis de Lión: Maya Nationalism and
Political Decolonization” (34-48); Chap. 4: “Rethinking Modernity and Identity
Politics in the Interethnic Debate in Guatemala” (87-125); & Notes. [R]
• Natividad Gutiérrez, Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities/ Indigenous Intellectuals and the
Mexican State (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999): Chap. 7, "The Emergence
of Indigenous Intellectuals and Their responses to National Identity," and Chap. 10,
"Indian Women Writers," & Notes: pp. 113-136 & 182-194 & 208-209. [R]
• Arturo Arias, “Identity or Literariness: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature” and
“The Maya Movement.” In Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of
Central America (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2007). [R]
• Victor Montejo, “The Multiplicity of Maya Voices.” in Maya Intellectual Renaissance:
Identity, Representation, and Leadership, chap. 4 (Austin: University of Texas, 2005):
123-148. [R*]

[Please note: the following 5 selections will be posted as "Resources" on the

SAKAI site, rather posted as e-Reserves on the site]:

• Francisco Morales Santos, La tarea de relator/ The Task of Telling: Poems, Tr. Joan
Lindgren (Portland: Trask House Books, 2000): selected poems. [R*]
• Calixta Gabriel Xiquín, Tejiendo los sucesos en el tiempo /Weaving Events in Time
(Yax Te' Foundation, 2002): selected poems. [R*]
• Humberto Ak'abal, Poems I brought down from the mountain/ Selected Poems, Tr.
Miguel Rivera, with Robert Bly (St. Paul, Minnesota: Nineties Press, 1999):
selected poems. [R*]
• María Luisa Góngora Pacheco, "Poverty," and Miguel Ángel May May, "A Story About
Yum Tziles," in Words of the True Peoples/ Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos,
Vol. 1, Prose, ed. Carlos Montemayor and Donald Frischman (Austin: Univ. of
Texas Press, 2004): 47-50 & 73-78. [R*]
• Victor Montejo, "The World Needs You," in Fiction International 16:2 (Summer/Fall,
1986): 40-46. [R*]

Sun July 17 Free day in Mérida: "Mérida en domingo" fiesta.

Overnight in Mérida. Institute arrangements conclude.

Mon July 18 Day of departure.

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INSTITUTE TEXT LIST

Coe, Michael. The Maya. 8th ed. NY: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Harrison, Peter. The Lords of Tikal/ Rulers of an Ancient Maya City. London: Thames and
Hudson, 1999.

Kelley, Joyce. An Archaeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Norman: University

of Oklahoma, 1993.

Kelley, Joyce. An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America. Norman: University

of Oklahoma, 1996.

Landa, Fray Diego de. Yucatan Before and After the Conquest. Tr. William Gates. N.Y.:
Dover, 1988.
Martin, Simon and Nikolai Grube. Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens. 2nd edition.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.

Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, revised ed. Tr. Dennis Tedlock. N.Y.:
Simon & Shuster, 1996.

Restall, Matthew and Amara Solari. 2012 and the End of the World Rowman and Littlefield,
2011.

Stuart, David and George Stuart. Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya. NY: Thames & Hudson,
2008.

Also Recommended:

Aveni, Anthony. The End of Time: the Maya Mystery of 2012. University of Colorado, 2009.

Coe, Michael and Mark Van Stone, Reading the Maya Glyphs. 2nd Ed. London: Thames and
Hudson, 2005.

Stone, Andrea and Marc Zender, Reading Maya Art/ A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya
Painting and Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson, 2011.

Van Stone, Mark, 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya. San Diego: Tlacaél
Press, 2010.

Walker, Cameron. Heritage or Heresy/ Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009.