Ancient Maya political dynamics /
An exploration, using research from the Maya site Motul de San Jose in Guatemala, of how political structures and dynamics have been examined by political anthropologists and archaeologists over the twentieth century.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2013
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| Series: | Maya studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Political anthropology, archaeology, and ancient politics
- Archaeological studies of ancient politics
- Reconstructing classic Maya polities : the macro scale of political analysis
- Internal dynamics, bureaucracy, and political centralization : the middle scale of political analysis
- The flow and use of power : the micro scale of political analysis
- Conclusions : toward an archaeology of power.
