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Political strategies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica /

"Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baron, Joanne, Kurnick, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Paradoxical politics : negotiating the contraditions of political authority / Sarah Kurnick
  • Theories of power and legitimacy in archaeological contexts : the emergent regime of power at the formative Maya community of Ceibal, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata
  • Negotiating political authority and community in terminal formative coastal Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce [and four others]
  • Conflicting political strategies in late formative to early classic central Jalisco / Christopher S. Beekman
  • Patron deities and politics among the classic Maya / Joanne Baron
  • Entangled political strategies : rulership, bureaucracy, and intermediate elites at Teotihuacan / Tatsuya Murakami
  • Landscapes, lordships, and sovereignty in Mesoamerica / Bryce Davenport, Charles Golden
  • Ruling "Purepécha Chichimeca" in a Tarascan world / Helen Perlstein Pollard
  • Reflections on the archaeopolitical : pursuing the universal within a unity of opposites / Simon Martin
  • List of contributors
  • Index.