The real business of ancient Maya economies : from farmers' fields to rulers' realms

Weitere Verfasser: Masson, Marilyn A. , [HerausgeberIn]
Freidel, David A. , [HerausgeberIn]
Demarest, Arthur Andrew , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2020].
©2020
Umfang/Format: xvii, 633 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Maya studies
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: The real business of ancient Maya economies (Online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I. Theoretical Approaches
  • Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges: Some Reflections / David A. Freidel
  • Modeling Maya Markets / Eleanor King
  • A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics: Language, Logic, and Models from Strategic Management Studies / Arthur A. Demarest, Bart Victor, Chloe Andrieu, and Paola Torres
  • Part II. Household and Community Economies and Resources
  • Understanding Variability in Distribution and Consumption in Low-Wealth Households from the Classic Period / Scott Hutson
  • Rural Economies at Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapan / Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Timothy Hare, Bradley Russell, Pedro
  • Delgado K, Barbara Escamilla Ojeda, and Luis Flores Cob
  • Stone for My House: The Economics of Stoneworking and Elite Housing in the Puuc Hills of Yucatan / William Ringle, Tom s Gallareta Negron, and George Bey
  • Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic: Case Studies from the Northwestern Peten, Guatemala, and Western Belize / Rachel Horowitz, Marcello Canuto and Chloe Andrieu
  • The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
  • Commerce, Autarky, Barter, and Redistribution: The Multi-Tiered Urban Economy of El Peru-Waka?, Guatemala / Keith Eppich
  • Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: Implications for Ancient Maya Political Economy / Brent Woodfill
  • Part III. Agriculture, Climate, Land
  • Gardens of the Maya / Andrew Wyatt
  • Yucatan Land and Labor Before and After Spanish Incursions / Adolfo Ivan Baten Alpuche, Patricia A. McAnany and Maia Dedrick
  • Maya Cornucopia: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands / Scott L. Fedick
  • Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Ceran, a Young Maya Village / Payson Sheets
  • Part IV. Political Elites, Wealthy Persons, and Economic Administration
  • A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty, Mexico / Kenichiro Tsukamoto
  • Bundling the Sticks: Tallies in Classic Maya Inscriptions / Alexandre Tokovinine
  • Maya Economic Organization and Power: Elite Households at Aguateca / Daniela Triadan and Takeshi Inomata
  • Part V. Economic Exchange Spheres: Routes, Facilities, and Symbolic Contexts
  • Economic Interaction and the Rise of Socio-Political Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: The Case from the Mirador Basin / Richard Hansen, Edgar Suyuc, Stanley Guenter, Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Enrique
  • Hernandez, and Beatriz Balcarcel
  • The Contents, Roles, and Meanings of "Tribute" among the Classic Maya / Dorie Reents-Budet and Ronald Bishop
  • The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatan Peninsula / Beniamino Volta, Joel D. Gunn, Lynda Florey Folan, William J. Folan, and
  • Geoffrey E. Braswell
  • An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatan, Mexico / Fernando Robles Castellanos, Anthony P. Andrews, and Ruben Chuc Aquilar
  • The Difference a Marketplace Makes: A View of Maya Market Exchange from the Late Classic Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace / Bernadette Cap
  • Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West / Charles Golden, Andrew Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Clive Vella, and Alejandra Roche Recinos
  • A Stone Duty? Flake Ritual Deposits and the Missing Workshops of the Maya Lowlands / Chloe Andrieu
  • Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Peten Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands / Prudence Rice
  • Maya Economics: Through a Glass, Sideways (One More Time) / Norman Yoffee
  • Conclusion: The Ties that Bind / Marilyn Masson
  • Appendix. Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands / Scott L. Fedick