...Rodrigo Navarrete This article concerns the sociopolitical recompositions of Carib native societies, especially the Palenque, who inhabited the Unare Depression in the eastern Venezuela llanos during colonial times. Through a comparative exploration of the different scenarios presented by the early...

... of Venezuela as an ideological and political erasure of the local and regional histories of indigenous and Afro-Venezuelan peoples. Reflexive, critical analysis of primary historical documents forms a central focus of Rodrigo Navarrete’s essay on the retribalization of the so- called Palenque, or Carib...

.... It is not a synthetic work, but its collected essays synergistically provide a deep history of the Ch’ol as well as sketches of some of their rituals and beliefs. The modern Ch’ol of the northern tropical lowlands of Chiapas are thought to be direct descendants of the ancient Maya who built the city of Palenque...

... and Meaning. In The Art, Iconography, and Dynastic History of Palenque, pt. 3 . Merle Greene Robertson, ed. Pp. 181 –94. Pebble Beach, CA: Pre-Columbian Art Research, Robert Louis Stevenson School. Barrera Vasquez, Alfredo, Juan Ramón Bastarrachea Manzano, William Brito Sansores, Refugio Vermont Salas...

.... We are taught that ‘‘the sculpture of Palenque resists action, emphasizing stasis and calm’’ (113) and that Yucatan sculpture reveals an ‘‘impulse to three-dimensionality’’ (138). In Miller’s presenta- tion of the Bonampak murals on which her early scholarly reputation was built, she waxes...

...-mail conversation , 11 June . Kremer Jürgen Flores Fausto Uc 1993 “The Ritual Suicide of Maya Rulers.” Paper presented at the Eighth Palenque Round Table , San Francisco . www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/RT10/Suicide.pdf . Landa Diego de 2011 Relación de las cosas de Yucatán...

.... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Ringle, William M., and Thomas C. Smith-Stark 1996 A Concordance to the Inscriptions of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.New Orleans: Tulane University, Middle American Research Institute. Stuart, David 1998 ‘‘The Fire Enters His House...

... mythological record, Chinchilla weaves together disparate bases of evidence. In addition to reading the ancient Maya visual record iconographically, he compares various textual sources, ranging from deciphered hieroglyphic inscriptions (notably, the Cross Group Tablets from Palenque that feature prominently...

... path. Chapter 4 documents how different kingdoms in the western Maya lowlands had distinctive mortuary practices, traditions that Scherer suggests reflected each polity’s social cohesion. For example, ceramics were placed near the feet or sides of the deceased at Piedras Negras and Palenque, but near...

... foreigners like Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, whom Achim vividly portrays as a paranoid explorer camped atop a pyramid at Palenque, often fizzled. Meanwhile, foreign observers self-servingly depicted Mexico as ill-suited to safeguard preconquest artifacts. From Idols to Antiquity depicts the transatlantic...

... by each author in their understanding of indigenous (e.g., the Warekena, Baré, Ye’kuana, Warao, Mapoyo, Palenque, Otomaco, Adole, Caquetío, Ayomán, Gayón, and Coyón) or Afro-Venezuelan peoples (e.g., the Ari- paeño). A comprehensive view of the academic and national significance of these studies...

... : University of Texas Press . Chase Arlen , and Chase Diane Z. 1994 . “ Maya Veneration of the Dead at Caracol, Belize .” In Seventh Palenque Round Table, 1989 , edited by Robertson Merle G. and Fields Virginia M. , 55 – 62 . San Francisco : Pre-Columbian Art Research...

... seven trees or pillars are created to support the heavens. Numerous comparisons are made with Classic monuments from other cen- ters, including Tikal, Palenque, and Quiriguá, and there is a useful over- view of Copán’s...

... and were also found in North- west Yucatán, Tabasco, and the southeastern periphery (Copán). In con- trast, Tikal, Naranjo, and other Petén sites included only a few examples of the titles under discussion in their inscriptional texts. Only at Palenque are all five titles found, leading Jackson...

... such as Palenque’s divine triad and protagonists from the Popol Vuh. She treats the creator deities and their immediate progeny next, relating these divine beings to the natural phe- nomena previously discussed. From here she moves on to the landscape itself, again drawing parallels between...

... A Concordance to the Inscriptions of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.New Orleans: Tulane University, Middle American Research Institute. Stuart, David 1998 ‘‘The Fire Enters His House Architecture and Ritual in Classic Maya Texts. In Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture...

... of Provenience and Date of Painting . In Sixth Palenque Round Table, 1986 . Robertson Merle Greene Fields Virginia M. , eds. Pp. 303 – 8 . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . 2004 Tayasal Origin of the Madrid Codex: Further Consideration of the Theory . In The Madrid Codex: New...

... areas. Fugitives had to rely on social geographies of safe indio towns and nearby palenques (maroon communities) to avoid recapture. Greater variations in chino skin colors led to ambiguous identification and, consequently, a higher probability of branding on the face with the S and nail ( clavo...

... of Oklahoma Press . Schaffer Anne-Louise 1991 Maya Posture of Royal Ease . In Sixth Palenque Round Table . Fields Virginia M. , ed. Pp. 203 – 16 . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Sell Barry D. 1993 Friars, Nahuas, and Books: Language and Expression in Colonial...

... temples’’ with- out addressing the commonly accepted view that these buildings are named hieroglyphically, with specifications of their relation to deities. To Baudez, the Palace at Palenque is a celebration of the ‘‘agrarian cycle’’ rather than, as widely believed, a residence for a royal court...