BOOKS

Halperin, Christina T.

2023 Foreigners Among Us: Alterity and the Making of Maya Societies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York.

Halperin, Christina T. and Lauren Schwartz (editors)

2017 Vernacular Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York.

Halperin, Christina T.

2014 Maya Figurines: Intersections between State and Household. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Halperin, Christina T., Katherine A. Faust, Rhonda Taube, and Auore Giguet (editors)

2009  Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (select)

Halperin, Christina T., Marta Lidia Perea, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Jean-Baptiste LeMoine

2024 A Pivot Point in Maya History: A Fire-Burning Event at K’anwitznal (Ucanal) and the Making of a New Era of Political Rule. Antiquity Vol. 0 (0): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.38.

Halperin, Christina T.

2024 Temporalities of Royal Costume in the Maya Lowlands. In Faces of Rulership in the Maya Lowlands, edited by Patricia A. McAnany and Marilyn A. Masson, pp. 191-221. Harvard University Press and Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library, Washington DC.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, Christina T. Halperin, and Miriam Salas

2022 Maya Molded-carved Ceramics as Boundary Objects: Terminal Classic Ceramic Production and the Forging of Political Relations in the Mopan Valley of Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 68:101463. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101463.

Halperin, Christina T., Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Carolyn Freiwald

2021 Terminal Classic residential histories, migration, and foreigners at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64:101337. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101337.

Halperin, Christina T.

2021 Figurines and the Materiality of Ancient Maya Humor. Americae 6:June 25 2021, https://americae.fr/dossiers/figurines-contextes/figurines-materiality-ancient-maya-humor/.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, and Christina T. Halperin

2021 Shifting Social Relations during the Terminal Classic period (ca. AD 810–950/1000): Ceramics from the Lowland Maya Site of Ucanal. Ancient Mesoamerica 32(3):1–18. DOI:10.1017/S0956536121000183.

Halperin, Christina T.

2021 Ancient Maya Recycling: Considerations of the Wasteful, Meaningful, and Practical from the Maya Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(1):1–27. doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09490-7.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, and Christina T. Halperin

2021 Comparing INAA and pXRF Analytical Methods for Ceramics: A Case Study with Classic Maya Wares. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36:102819. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102819.

Freiwald, Carolyn, Christina T. Halperin, Camille Dubois Francoeur, Caroline Schlinsog, and Kimberly A. Bauer

2021 A Microscopic View of Maya Needle and Perforator Production at Ucanal, Guatemala. In Bones at a Crossroads: Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology, edited by Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, Stephen Rhodes, and Christian Gates St-Pierre, pp. 171–188. Sidestone Press, Leiden.

Halperin, Christina T. and Simon Martin

2020 Ucanal Stela 29 and the Cosmopolitanism of Terminal Classic Maya Stone Monuments. Latin American Antiquity 31(4):817-837. doi:10.1017/laq.2020.70

Halperin, Christina T., Jose Garrido Lopez, Miriam E. SalasPol, and Jean-Bapiste LeMoine

2020 Convergence Zone Politics at the Archaeological Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica, 31(3): 476-493. doi:10.1017/S0956536120000085.

Halperin, Christina T., Carolyn Freiwald, and Gyles Iannone

2020 Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries in the Maya World: Concepts and Theory. Ancient Mesoamerica, 31(3): 453-460. doi:10.1017/S0956536120000061.

Halperin, Christina T.

2019 Profane Illuminations: Classic Maya Molded Figurines in Comparative Context. RES Anthropology and Aesthetics, 71-72:25-39. https://doi.org/10.1086/704702.

Halperin, Christina T., Jean-Bapiste LeMoine, and Enrique Pérez Zambrano

2019 Infrastructures of Moving Water at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 56(2019):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101102

Halperin, Christina T. and Jose Luis Garrido

2019 Architectural Aesthetics, Orientations, and Reuse at the Terminal Classic Maya Site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45(1):41-66. doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1676033

Halperin, Christina T., and Zachary X. Hruby

2019 A Late Postclassic (ca. 1350-1521 AD) Border Shrine at the site of Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity 30(1):55-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2018.77

Halperin, Christina T., Zachary X. Hruby, and Ryan W. Mongelluzzo

2018 The Weight of Ritual: Classic Maya Jade Head Pendants in the Round. Antiquity 92(363):758-771. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.65

Halperin, Christina T.

2017 Temporalities of Late Classic to Postclassic (ca. 600-1521 CE) Maya Figurines from Central Petén, Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity 28(4):515-540.

2017 How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée. In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, edited by Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires, pp. 87-108. Rowan & Littlefield Press, Lanham, MD.

2017 Anthropological Archaeology in 2016: Cooperation and Collaborations in Archaeological Research and Practice. American Anthropologist 119(2):284-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12068

2017 Textile Techné: Classic Maya Translucent Cloth and the Making of Value. In Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World, edited by Cathy Costin, pp.433-467. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.

2017 Ancient Cosmopolitanism: Feminism and the Rethinking of Maya Inter-regional Interactions during the Late Classic to Postclassic periods (ca. 600–1521 CE). Journal of Social Archaeology 17(3) 349–375. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605317730628