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



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Autore: Ensor Bradley E. <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship [[electronic resource] /] / Bradley E. Ensor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
Disciplina: 972/.63
Soggetto topico: 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)
Soggetto geografico: Tabasco (Mexico : State) History
Tabasco (Mexico : State) Antiquities
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
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ISBN: 0-8173-8644-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461975803321
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