ISBN:
9780511598401
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
Series Statement:
New directions in archaeology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Geschichte Anfänge-1500
;
Funde
;
Politik
;
Indians / Politics and government
;
Political anthropology / America
;
Social archaeology / America
;
Indians / Antiquities
;
Politik
;
Entwicklung
;
Indianer
;
Gesellschaft
;
Amerika
;
America / Antiquities
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indianer
;
Gesellschaft
;
Entwicklung
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1500
;
Indianer
;
Politik
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1500
Abstract:
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family / Rudolf van Zantwijk -- 10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion / Frederic Hicks -- 11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta / Bruce E. Byland and John M.D. Pohl -- 12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- 13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya Lowlands / Mary E.D. Pohl and John M.D. Pohl -- 14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya / John W. Fox -- 15. Factions and political development in the central Andes / Terence N. D'Altroy -- 16. Factional competition and historical materialism / Glenn Perusek -- 17. Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation, and factionalism in New World political arenas / John W. Fox
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511598401
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