The Materiality of Social Memory: The Potters' Gremio in Ticul, Yucatán, México. (1st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Arnold, Dean E; Wynne, Hayley Schumacher; Ostoich, Josiah
• Is Part Of: Ethnoarchaeology. Volume 5:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 81
• Page End: 99
• Publication Date: 2013-10-01
• Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology -- Periodicals; 930.1
• DOI: 10.1179/1944289013Z.0000000007
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1944-2890

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This paper explores the means by which potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, materialized their social memory in the <italic>Gremio</italic> festival to honor a 'Black Christ.' The <italic>gremio's</italic> 'Black Christ' is associated with the emergence of a unique indigenous Yucatecan identity in the 17th century, but the <italic>Gremio</italic> activities also materially express occupation, social class, kinds of social relations, and multiple levels of social identity in their performance and in material culture such as banners and pottery. Our study demonstrates the kinds of phenomena involved in creating and evoking social memory with the assumption that the study of the present can reveal the many ways that memory about the past is performed and expressed.</p> </abstract>