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Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship /

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 pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ensor, Bradley E., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817386443
0817386440