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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables |
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Knowledge Unlatched |
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Open Access e-Books |
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Chapter 1. Paradoxical politics: negotiating the contraditions of political authority / Sarah Kurnick -- Chapter 2. Theories of power and legitimacy in archaeological contexts: the emergent regime of power at the formative Maya community of Ceibal, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata -- Chapter 3. Negotiating political authority and community in terminal formative coastal Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce [and four others] -- Chapter 4. Conflicting political strategies in late formative to early classic central Jalisco / Christopher S. Beekman -- Chapter 5. Patron deities and politics among the classic Maya / Joanne Baron -- Chapter 6. Entangled political strategies: rulership, bureaucracy, and intermediate elites at Teotihuacan / Tatsuya Murakami -- Chapter 7. Landscapes, lordships, and sovereignty in Mesoamerica / Bryce Davenport and Charles Golden -- Chapter 8. Ruling "Purepécha Chichimeca" in a Tarascan world / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- Chapter 9. Reflections on the archaeopolitical: pursuing the universal within a unity of opposites / Simon Martin -- List of contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the region confronted the contradiction inherent in political authority. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all |
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New data from a variety of well-known scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology reveal the creation, perpetuation, and contestation of politically authoritative relationships between rulers and subjects and between nobles and commoners. The contributions span the geographic breadth and temporal extent of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica-from Preclassic Oaxaca to the Classic Petén region of Guatemala to the Postclassic Michoac©Łn-and the contributors weave together archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric data. Grappling with the questions of how those exercising authority convince others to follow and why individuals often choose to recognize and comply with authority, Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica discusses why the study of political authority is both timely and significant, reviews how scholars have historically understood the operation of political authority, and proposes a new analytical framework to understand how rulers rule. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched |
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anthropology |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Anthropology.
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History.
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Anthropology
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History
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anthropology.
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history (discipline)
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Archaeology by period -- region.
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Archaeology.
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Humanities.
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Prehistoric archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Anthropology
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History
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Baron, Joanne, editor
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| ISBN |
9781607324157 |
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1607324156 |
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9781607324164 |
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1607324164 |
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