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

Publication Info. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016.
©2015.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (pages cm)
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology -- Central America.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Central America.
Ethnoarchaeology -- Mexico.
Mexico.
Social archaeology -- Central America.
Social archaeology.
Social archaeology -- Mexico.
Authority -- Political aspects -- Central America -- History -- To 1500.
Authority.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Authority -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- To 1500.
Indians of Central America -- Politics and government.
Indians of Central America -- Politics and government.
Indians of Central America.
Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government.
Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government.
Indians of Central America -- Antiquities.
Indians of Central America -- Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Baron, Joanne.
Kurnick, Sarah.
Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781607324164
1607324164
9781607324157 hardback
1607324156