Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages / edited by Catharina E. Santasilia, Guy David Hepp, and Richard A. Diehl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santasilia, Catharina E., editor.

Hepp, Guy David, editor.

Diehl, Richard A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2022]

Summary:

This work examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period (2000 BCE-250 CE), an era that helped produce some of the world's most renowned complex civilisations. The chapters offer significant data, innovative methodologies, and novel perspectives on Mexican archaeology. Using diverse and non-traditional theoretical approaches, contributors discuss interregional relationships and the exchange of ideas in contexts ranging from the Gulf Coast Olmec region to the site of Tlatilco in Central Mexico to the often-overlooked cultures of the far western states. Their essays explore identity formation, cosmological perspectives, the first hints of social complexity, the underpinnings of Formative period economies, and the sensorial implications of sociocultural change.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages

2. Changing/Rearranging: Transformations in Identities and Sociopolitical Organization in Early Formative Oaxaca

3. Early Formative Gulf Lowlands Occupants: From Fictions to Factions

4. Full Bellies, Ringing Ears, and Smoke in Their Eyes: The Sensations of Social Change in Mesoamerica's Early Formative Period 5. New Approaches to Jadeite Usage in Formative Mesoamerica: Identifying Olmec Portable Sculptures on the Gulf Coast

6. Beyond Contortionists: Archaeological Indicators of Ritual Activities at Tlatilco

7. Regional and Corporate Identities in Formative Period Western Mexico

8. Tlatilco: The People of the Lake

9. Refining the Middle Formative Chronology in Central Mexico: Implications for the Origins of the Central Mexican Urban Tradition

10. The Ceremonial Offerings of Cerro de la Virgen, Oaxaca: Identity, Politics, and Religious Practice at the End of the Formative 11. Reflections on the Mesoamerican Formative Period

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Santasilia, Catharina E. Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages

ISBN:

0-8130-6734-0

0-8130-7014-7

OCLC:

1310333261