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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136399403321

Autore

Kurnick Sarah

Titolo

Political strategies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / / edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2016

Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2016

ISBN

9781607325659

9781607324157

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico - Antiquities

Indians of Central America - Antiquities

Indians of Mexico - Politics and government

Indians of Central America - Politics and government

Authority - Political aspects - Mexico - History - To 1500

Authority - Political aspects - Central America - History - To 1500

Social archaeology - Mexico

Social archaeology - Central America

Ethnoarchaeology - Mexico

Ethnoarchaeology - Central America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Michoacán—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.