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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461975803321

Autore

Ensor Bradley E. <1966->

Titolo

Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship [[electronic resource] /] / Bradley E. Ensor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8173-8644-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

972/.63

Soggetti

Mayas - Kinship - Mexico - Tabasco (State)

Mayas - Marriage customs and rites - Mexico - Tabasco (State)

Mayas - Mexico - Tabasco (State) - Antiquities

Social groups - Mexico - Tabasco (State)

Social archaeology - Mexico - Tabasco (State)

Electronic books.

Tabasco (Mexico : State) History

Tabasco (Mexico : State) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Terminology; Introduction: Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship; 1. A Brief History of Ancient Maya Kinship Studies; 2. Implications of the Kinship Models; 3. Problems with Models on Ancient Maya Kinship; 4. Archaeological Approaches to Class, Kinship, and Gender; 5. Islas de Los Cerros; 6. Class, Kinship, and Gender at Islas de Los Cerros; 7. Crafting Archaeological Models on Class-Based Kinship; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship  provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the  formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient  state-level society. Bradley E. Ensor provides a new theoretical contribution to Maya ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research. Rather than operating solely as a symbolic order unobservable to archaeologists, kinship, according to Ensor, forms concrete social



relations that structure daily life and can