Papers by Dra. Rocío García Valgañón
Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, 2017
The paper offers a revision of the current knowledge concerning elderly Maya women, based on Maya... more The paper offers a revision of the current knowledge concerning elderly Maya women, based on Maya and Spanish colonial sources, as well as iconographic artefacts such as vessels, figurines and mural painting. The main objective is to determine whether information derived from the above sources is congruent and whether it coincides with the current notions about these women. Moreover, special attention is paid to certain roles played by the elderly Maya women, which distinguish them from other female members of the community and, at the same time, bring them almost on a par with men.
La representación de los ancianos mayas prehispánicos desde una perspectiva de género
In this article it is analyzed the Prehispanic elderly Maya image in the Art to find out if it ma... more In this article it is analyzed the Prehispanic elderly Maya image in the Art to find out if it matches with the idea of them as community guides. After defining what an elder is and describing their physical appearance, each one of the elder gods of their pantheon will be analyzed. In this way, we can conclude that their abundance does not match their percentage in the society. Besides, the importance and number of roles and importance assigned to the male gods are superior to the ones linked with the female ones.
Cuicuilco, 2008
Muestra un archivo XML con los metadatos del artículo basados en el formato que maneja OAI - PMH ... more Muestra un archivo XML con los metadatos del artículo basados en el formato que maneja OAI - PMH (open archives initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) facilitando así la diseminación eficiente del contenido. ... García Valgañón, Rocío. (2008). Reseña de "Las mujeres en ...
Tiempo detenido, tiempo suficiente. Ensayos y narraciones mesoamericanas en homenaje a Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo, 2019
Arqueología e Historia Desperta Ferro, 2019
"Si nuestro conocimiento sobre los mayas prehispánicos procediera del cine y la televisión, muy p... more "Si nuestro conocimiento sobre los mayas prehispánicos procediera del cine y la televisión, muy posiblemente les consideraríamos una misteriosa civilización constructora de pirámides. Además, si la película que tenemos en mente es Apocalypto (2006), es probable que sus sacerdotes se nos antojasen sádicos contra una pacífica población selvática. Sin embargo, tanto unos como otros formaban parte de una misma comunidad y compartían unas creencias que hacían necesario cierto tipo de sacrificios; en ningún caso tan brutales como los que refleja el celuloide"....
The paper offers a revisión of the current knowledge concerning elderly Maya women, based on Maya... more The paper offers a revisión of the current knowledge concerning elderly Maya women, based on Maya and Spanish colonial sources, as well as iconographic artefacts such as vessels, figurines, and mural painting. The main objective is to determine whether information derived from the above sources is congruent, and whether it coincides with the current notions about these women. Moreover, special attention is paid to certain roles played by the elderly Maya women, which distinguish them from other female members of the community and, at the same time, bring them almost on a par with men.
In this article it is analyzed the Prehispanic elder Maya image in the Art to find out if it matc... more In this article it is analyzed the Prehispanic elder Maya image in the Art to find out if it matches with the idea of them as community guides. After defining what an elder is and describing their physical appearance, each one of the elder gods of their pantheon will be analyzed. In this way, we can conclude that their abundance does not match their percentage in the society. Besides, the importance and number of roles and importance assigned to the male gods are superior to the ones linked with the female ones.
Investigaciones en Arqueología. Homenaje a Beatriz Barba, pp. 145-157, 2013
Género y Arqueología en Mesoamérica. Homenaje a Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 35-52., 2013
Este capítulo se centra en la importancia que Rosemary A. Joyce le atribuye, de entre todas las v... more Este capítulo se centra en la importancia que Rosemary A. Joyce le atribuye, de entre todas las variables, a las de sexo/género y edad en la conformación de la identidad y la organización social en Mesoamérica. En primer lugar, se exponen sus bases teóricas, que se apoyan en la filosofía de Judith Butler, y se subraya la importancia de ser conscientes de nuestros prejuicios y modelos organizativos para no proyectarlos sobre el objeto de estudio. Seguidamente se explicitan las fuentes y disciplinas que emplea para analizar una serie de culturas de diversa complejidad a lo largo del tiempo, así como sus observaciones al respecto de la representación de diversos sexos/géneros y edades en el registro iconográfico y material en función del contexto. A continuación se presentan sus aportaciones al conocimiento de cómo se conformaba la identidad a lo largo del ciclo vital y cómo se inculcaba el sexo/género desde el nacimiento por medio del continuo entrenamiento, de la modificación de la apariencia y de rituales que favorecían la interiorización del modelo a seguir. Por último, se llama la atención sobre la importancia de entender a los individuos mesoamericanos, no sólo por su pertenencia a determinado sexo/género, sino dentro una red de categorías a las que pertenecía y que lo definían, entre las que destacaba la de la edad.
Los mayas. Voces de piedra.
Las mujeres mayas en la antigüedad., 2011
Los artículos que conforman este libro fueron sometidos a un proceso de dictamen bajo la modalida... more Los artículos que conforman este libro fueron sometidos a un proceso de dictamen bajo la modalidad de doble ciego realizado por pares expertos en la materia.
Anuario de Estudios Indígenas 12, 2007
En este texto se exponen los estudios realizados sobre ancianos mesoamericanos y, en particular, ... more En este texto se exponen los estudios realizados sobre ancianos mesoamericanos y, en particular, sobre las mujeres mayas prehispánicas, a lo largo del siglo XX y principios del XXI, en el campo de la Historia, Arqueología, Antropología, Epigrafía e Iconografía, desde una perspectiva de edad y género y yendo de lo general a lo concreto. De este modo se verá que los dioses, sus aspectos y funciones, han recibido un tratamiento prioritario al ser el objeto principal de las fuentes, dejándose de lado a los ancianos reales y los temas prosaicos. Las más desfavorecidas han sido las mujeres, de las que sólo se destaca su labor como parteras, curanderas, etc. y su faceta sobrenatural. Finalmente, el conocimiento que se tiene de unos y de otras se desprende de la comparación con sus homólogas divinas.
Cuicuilco, 2008
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Books by Dra. Rocío García Valgañón
Tesis doctoral de Rocío García Valgañón (2016), publicada en la página web de la Universidad Comp... more Tesis doctoral de Rocío García Valgañón (2016), publicada en la página web de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia de América II (Antropología de América). http://eprints.ucm.es/39216/1/T37807.pdf
he objectives of this dissertation are six, each of which has been developed in a different chapter. The first objective was to describe the current status of the issue of studies about elderly pre-Columbian Mayan people and its relationship to women’s and gender studies. The second objective was to ascertain what pre-Columbian Mayans considered to be elderly, what their appearance was, and what physical aspects or features marked them as elderly people. The third objective was to describe which of these physical markers allow us to identify elders in the Iconography, and to see how they were depicted with relation to period, medium and sex. This enabled us both to distinguish the elderly from people of uncertain age, and to research the roles they played and the themes in which they took part, paying special attention to the differences between men and women, which constitutes the fourth objective. The fifth one was to analyze the representations of elderly Mayan women. For this we have borne in mind what we have learned until know, and have compared that knowledge with textual sources, both colonial and contemporary. The goal was to ascertain whether these written sources had iconographic support and to discover the position of elderly women in their communities. Finally, a database was created with the greatest number possible of representations of elderly people, which served as a basis for present. Hopefully, it will serve for future researchs. To carry out these objectives we have used an Iconographic methodology. The lack of existing prehistoric texts has been compensated by using colonial and contemporary documents. In a first stage, the physical markers found in ancient preColumbian Maya representations have been described. To do this, we needed to know the physical changes that take place in elderly people’s bodies. In a second stage, the rules that determine such changes have been analyzed according to media, period and sex of the people represented. This has led us to the establishment of typologies...
Las mujeres mayas en la antigüedad, Centro de Estudios de Antropología de las Mujeres, Puebla, Mé... more Las mujeres mayas en la antigüedad, Centro de Estudios de Antropología de las Mujeres, Puebla, México, 2011, 253 pp.
ISBN: 978-607-00-4649-0
Thesis Chapters by Dra. Rocío García Valgañón
Catálogo de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierras Ba... more Catálogo de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierras Bajas desde una perspectiva de género (2016)
Anexos I al III de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tie... more Anexos I al III de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierras Bajas desde una perspectiva de género (2016)
Bibliografía de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierra... more Bibliografía de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierras Bajas desde una perspectiva de género (2016)
Conclusiones de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierra... more Conclusiones de la tesis doctoral La representación de las ancianas mayas prehispánicas de Tierras Bajas desde una perspectiva de género (2016).
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he objectives of this dissertation are six, each of which has been developed in a different chapter. The first objective was to describe the current status of the issue of studies about elderly pre-Columbian Mayan people and its relationship to women’s and gender studies. The second objective was to ascertain what pre-Columbian Mayans considered to be elderly, what their appearance was, and what physical aspects or features marked them as elderly people. The third objective was to describe which of these physical markers allow us to identify elders in the Iconography, and to see how they were depicted with relation to period, medium and sex. This enabled us both to distinguish the elderly from people of uncertain age, and to research the roles they played and the themes in which they took part, paying special attention to the differences between men and women, which constitutes the fourth objective. The fifth one was to analyze the representations of elderly Mayan women. For this we have borne in mind what we have learned until know, and have compared that knowledge with textual sources, both colonial and contemporary. The goal was to ascertain whether these written sources had iconographic support and to discover the position of elderly women in their communities. Finally, a database was created with the greatest number possible of representations of elderly people, which served as a basis for present. Hopefully, it will serve for future researchs. To carry out these objectives we have used an Iconographic methodology. The lack of existing prehistoric texts has been compensated by using colonial and contemporary documents. In a first stage, the physical markers found in ancient preColumbian Maya representations have been described. To do this, we needed to know the physical changes that take place in elderly people’s bodies. In a second stage, the rules that determine such changes have been analyzed according to media, period and sex of the people represented. This has led us to the establishment of typologies...
ISBN: 978-607-00-4649-0
Thesis Chapters by Dra. Rocío García Valgañón