Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baron, Joanne.

Kurnick, Sarah.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology--Central America.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology--Mexico.

Social archaeology--Central America.

Social archaeology.

Social archaeology--Mexico.

Authority--Political aspects--Central America--History--To 1500.

Authority.

Authority--Political aspects--Mexico--History--To 1500.

Indians of Central America--Politics and government.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of Mexico--Politics and government.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (@88 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the region confronted this contradiction. 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 Peten region of Guatemala to the Postclassic Michoacan--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. Contributors include Sarah B. Barber, Joanne Baron, Christopher S. Beekman, Jeffrey Brzezinski, Bryce Davenport, Charles Golden, Takeshi Inomata, Arthur A. Joyce, Sarah Kurnick, Carlo J. Lucido, Simon Martin, Tatsuya Murakami, Helen Perlstein Pollard, and Victor Salazar Chavez"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1. Paradoxical Politics: Negotiating the Contradictions of Political Authority

2. Theories of Power and Legitimacy in Archaeological Contexts: The Emergent Regime of Power at the Formative Maya Community of Ceibal, Guatemala

3. Negotiating Political Authority and Community in Terminal Formative Coastal Oaxaca

4. Conflicting Political Strategies in Late Formative to Early Classic Central Jalisco

5. Patron Deities and Politics among the Classic Maya

6. Entangled Political Strategies: Rulership, Bureaucracy, and Intermediate Elites at Teotihuacan

7. Landscapes, Lordships, and Sovereignty in Mesoamerica

8. Ruling "Purépecha Chichimeca" in a Tarascan World

9. Reflections on the Archaeopolitical: Pursuing the Universal within a Unity of Opposites

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607324164

1607324164

OCLC:

945563527

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access