Abstract
ABSTRACTWhat do portable objects have to do with the making of places? Portable objects are seemingly peripheral to understandings of place, as landscape studies often revolve around human experiences in relation to relatively fixed features, such as monumental buildings, agricultural fields, and settlements. Attention to the fleeting movements and intersecting juxtapositions of portable things, people, and landscapes, however, reveals placemaking as relational and dynamic. From a multiscalar perspective, in this article I identify the Late Classic (ca. 600–900 C.E.) Maya Ik’ polity in Petén, Guatemala, as a series of overlapping and relational local, provincial, and regional places. I examine the circulation and social meanings of polychrome vessels and ceramic figurines through paste composition, iconographic, and contextual analyses not only to understand the spatial junctures of the Ik’ polity but also to explore how conceptions of the Ik’ polity were forged by those who used, viewed, and moved these objects.
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