Ponencias en el Wayeb de Paris 2008

__Hola, a continuación os hago un listado (ordenado alfabéticamente por el primer apellido del primer autor) de las ponencias que se dieron en la 13º Conferencia Europea de Mayistas que tuvo lugar en París a principios de diciembre de este año 2008, a fin de que sepáis de que se habló y podáis buscar los artículos que os interesen en las actas cuando se publiquen.

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Aimers, James J. The Everyday Life of Ceramics at Lamanai, Belize.

Andrieu, Chlóe Chipping Away at the Facts: What Chipped Stone Tells us About the Daily Life of the Maya.

Ciaramella, Mary A. The Pottery-Makers in the Madrid Codex.

Ciudad Ruiz, Andrés y Pilar Asensio Expresiones de cariño entre los antiguos mayas.

De León Pasquel, Lourdes Bromear, pedir, ordenar, convencer, amenazar: Directivos, afecto y organización social de la vida cotidiana de una familia maya zinacanteca.

Déodat, Laure & M-Charlotte Arnauld Cocinas y comidas en Río Bec.

García Barrios, Ana y Verónica A. Vázquez López Moda y protocolo en el reino de Kaan (Siglo VII d.C.).

Grube, Nikolai Maya Warfare and Daily Life.

Hohmann-Vogrin, Anna Margaretha Exploring Syntactic Relations in Maya Courtyard Groups.

Houston, Stephen A Splendid Predicament: Glyphs, Archaeology, and Young Men among the Classic Maya.

Johnston, Kevin Commoner Cotton Production in the Political Economy of the Classic Lowland Maya.

Klingler, Christian y Catherine Letcher Lazo The Role and Function of Wáay-beings in the Context of Present-day Yucatec Maya Life.

Le Guen, Olivier The Place of Supernatural Entities in Maya Daily Life and Socialization.

Martin, Simon Glyphs from the Painted Pyramid: The Epigraphy of Structure Sub 1-4 of the Chiik Nahb Acrópolis, Calakmul, Mexico.

Ochiai, Kazuyasu ¿Por que el cuerpo humano es más durable que una piedra?: la filosofía de renovación de los mayas ante la filosofía de conservación de los investigadores.

Patrois, Julie Maya Prehispanic Graffiti: a Popular Means of Expression? The Case of the Río Bec Region (Campeche, México).

Piedrasanta Herrera, Ruth Evolución reciente del espacio doméstico entre los Chuj.

Restall, Matthew A Day in the Life (of Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Mayas).

Romero, Sergio The Linguistic Construction of Everyday Christianity: Social History and Pastoral Q´eqchi´.

Ruz Sosa, Mario Herederos de Vucub-Caquix. Actividades de recolección entre los mayas coloniales.

Sheets, Payson Dayly and Special Ritual Activities of the Maya Commoners at Ceren, El Salvador.
Vapnarsky, Valentina Mandamientos y solicitudes: el arte de pedir en el habla cotidiana maya yucateca.

Zehrt, Claudia Fate and Fortune: The Life History of a Maya Commoner Residential Courtyard at Minanhá, Belize.

_________Imagen similar a la que ilustraba el Programa del EMC, obra de Tikal Dumas.

Chronicles of Mayas Kings and Queens - Revised Edition

__The second edition of the now indispensable « Chronicles of Maya Kings and Queens » is finally available. This book written by two important figures of mayan epigraphy, Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania Museum) and Nikolai Grube (University of Bonn) has received, since its publication in the year 2000, a lot justified attention. This book is indeed the first and only one of its type. It presents a compilation of the major historical informations about 11 of the main ancient mayas cities (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Naranjo, Caracol, Calakmul, Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, Palenque, Tonina, Copan, Quirigua). The second and revised edition had been announced for April 2008.... and here we are!

__While visiting the British Museum and its bookshop, I saw the new edition of the volume standing on a table... I was a bit excited as I expected a lot of this second edition. Maybe I had misunderstood the nature of the additions or simply was awaiting the second edition to shake me as much as the first did...

__This second edition is simply a « revised edition » as said on the cover. New important discoveries that were realized since the first edition in 2000 have been inserted. One of the major addition concerns Naranjo's dynasty. In 2007 for example, Alexandre Tokovinine and Fiona Fialko published an important paper on recent finds (PARI journal ). The discovery of Naranjo stela 45 has indeed added new kings to the dynastic list of Naranjo (with the help of Luis Lopes' paper too). Otherwise, changes are minor and consist of orthographic revisions (depending on the decipherment of new signs), calendarical additions or revisions etc... The achieved goal of this edition was to be updated according to the ever changing standards of epigrafy... So if you own a copy of the first edition, that you have entirely read, if you follow the epigrafic progresses and read all the papers that are published on mayan history and epigrafy, this new edition may disapoint you (despite its evident practical aspect). Anyway, as always, Thames and Hudson edition has printed a beautifully illustrated book for a modic price (14.95 pounds, softcover; 240 pages, 366 illustrations, 86 in color).