Foreigners Among Us: Alterity and the Making of Ancient Maya Societies

Assessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative component of identity, Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of Pre-Columbian Maya and questions not only who these foreigners might have been but who were making such designations of difference in the first place.

Drawing from identity studies, standpoint theory, and ideas on alterity, Foreigners Among...