Foreigners Among Us: Alterity and the Making of Ancient Maya Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032263205)

Christina T. Halperin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines ancient Maya politics from the perspectives of households, gender, materiality, and everyday life. Halperin has conducted archaeological field investigations in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize since 1997. She has published extensively on topics such as ceramic figurines, textiles, the production and circulation of polychrome pottery, architecture, and landscape archaeology. Halperin is author or editor of Vernacular Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas (2017), Maya Figurines: Intersections between State and Household (2014) and Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena (2009).