Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1607324156 ISBN 13: 9781607324157

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Colorado, 2016

Riassunto

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 Petén region of Guatemala to the Postclassic Michoacán—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 Víctor Salazar Chávez.

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L'autore:

Sarah Kurnick is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder and codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Punta Laguna. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among other organizations.

Joanne Baron lectures in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is a consulting scholar at the Penn Museum. Her work has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

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• Editore: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1607324156
• ISBN 13: 9781607324157
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 291
• Redattore: Kurnick Sarah, Baron Joanne