03113nam 2200661 a 450 991082332450332120240313081451.00-8173-8644-0(CKB)2670000000277372(EBL)1073301(OCoLC)819635035(SSID)ssj0000783000(PQKBManifestationID)11418546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783000(PQKBWorkID)10752396(PQKB)11707521(OCoLC)825170232(MdBmJHUP)muse19091(Au-PeEL)EBL1073301(CaPaEBR)ebr10629244(MiAaPQ)EBC1073301(EXLCZ)99267000000027737220120524d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrafting prehispanic Maya kinship /Bradley E. Ensor1st ed.Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Pressc20131 online resource (161 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1785-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexBy 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 canMayasKinshipMexicoTabasco (State)MayasMarriage customs and ritesMexicoTabasco (State)MayasMexicoTabasco (State)AntiquitiesSocial groupsMexicoTabasco (State)Social archaeologyMexicoTabasco (State)Tabasco (Mexico : State)HistoryTabasco (Mexico : State)AntiquitiesMayasKinshipMayasMarriage customs and ritesMayasAntiquities.Social groupsSocial archaeology972/.63Ensor Bradley E.1966-1700185MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823324503321Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship4082985UNINA