Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Sarah Kurnick, Joanne Baron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kurnick, Sarah, editor.

Baron, Joanne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

United States of America : University Press of Colorado, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 Michoacén- 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.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Round 2

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103435

ISBN:

9781607325659

OCLC:

993103469

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access