Ancestral Maya economies in archaeological perspective

1. Verfasser: McAnany, Patricia Ann
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xviii, 373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Mexiko
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies
  • Situating Maya societies in space and time
  • Feeding a hungry landscape
  • Gendered labor and socially constructed space
  • Ritual works : monumental architecture and generative schemes of power
  • Naturalized authority of the royal court
  • Social identity and daily practice of artisan production
  • Places, practices, and people of commerce
  • Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements
  • Skeining the threads.