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

• Autore: Kurnick Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2016; Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology; Mesoamerica; Mesoamerican chronology; Polity; Purépecha; Tutelary deity; Viejo River (Puerto Rico)
• Persona (resp. second.): KurnickSarah; BaronJoanne
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Political strategies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
• ISBN: 9781607325659; 9781607324157
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136399403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II