Feminist Futures in the Maya World

Abstract (English)

This panel seeks to interrogate how
to engage in feminist research in the Maya world in the 21st century. Thinking
across the subfields of anthropology, we seek to find common approaches between
cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and biological anthropology
that lead to more just understandings, treatments, representations of,
and engagement with Maya peoples across time and space. This panel questions
the utility of retaining cohesion across sub-fields through area studies,
ultimately highlighting what strengths anthropological approaches to questions
of gender and intersectionality can achieve in scholarly understandings of the
Maya world.