%0 Journal Article
%T Limites politiques et barri¨¨res sociales dans le monde maya classique Political Limits and Social Barriers in the Classic Maya World: Reflections Based on a Few Archaeological Experiences
%A Dominique Michelet
%J Ateliers d'Anthropologie
%D 2012
%I LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, CNRS-Universit¨¦ Paris X)
%R 10.4000/ateliers.9207
%X L¡¯arch¨¦ologie des Basses Terres mayas ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦poque classique est riche de donn¨¦es susceptibles de nous renseigner sur plusieurs types de   fronti¨¨res   sociopolitiques. Si la question des limites territoriales des entit¨¦s politiques du monde classique constitue, depuis les ann¨¦es 1970, un objectif tout ¨¤ fait conscient de la recherche, bien d¡¯autres ¨¦l¨¦ments des partitionnements sociopolitiques existent, mais ils n¡¯ont pas re u, le plus souvent, l¡¯attention qu¡¯ils m¨¦ritent. L¡¯examen de quelques informations, emprunt¨¦es aux r¨¦sultats de projets de recherche collective r¨¦cents, indique que les d¨¦marcations formelles plus ou moins minces durent ¨ºtre rares, qu¡¯il y aurait m¨ºme eu peu de bornages explicites et que les seuils ¨¦taient dot¨¦s d¡¯une ¨¦paisseur certaine, leur franchissement ob¨¦issant ¨¤ des codes pr¨¦cis et/ou impliquant des comportements ritualis¨¦s. The archaeology of the Maya Lowlands of the classical era is rich in data that are likely to have something to teach us about several types of sociopolitical ¡°boundary¡±. Although research since the 1970s has consciously aimed to address the question of the territorial limits of classical-world political entities, many other elements of sociopolitical partitioning exist, but they have tended not to receive the attention they deserve. The examination of a few pieces of information, borrowed from the results of recent collective research projects, indicates that more-or-less thin formal demarcations must have been rare, that there would even have been few explicit boundary markings, and that the thresholds were endowed with a certain thickness, their crossing obeying precise codes and/or involving ritualised behaviours.
%K Balamku
%K politico-territorial limits
%K Puuc region
%K R¨ªo Bec
%K social barriers
%K Classic period
%K Maya Lowlands
%K Mayas des Basses Terres
%K ¨¦poque classique
%K limites politico-territoriales
%K barri¨¨res sociales
%K r¨¦gion Puuc
%K Balamku
%K Rio Bec
%U http://ateliers.revues.org/9207