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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814873903321

Titolo

Mesoamerican plazas : arenas of community and power / / edited by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Takeshi Inomata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9879-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

711/.550972

Soggetti

Maya architecture - Mexico

Maya architecture - Central America

Indian architecture - Mexico

Indian architecture - Central America

Plazas - Mexico

Plazas - Central America

Mexico Antiquities

Central America 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

part I. Plaza contructions and public events -- part II. Plazas in broader spatial contexts -- part III. Plazas and images -- part IV. Commentary.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is the first book to examine the roles of plazas in ancient Mesoamerica. It argues persuasively that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes, but were the actual political processes through which people created, negotiated, and subverted social realities"--