Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective

AvPatricia A. McAnany

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles this question and presents the first comprehensive view of ancestral Maya economic practice. Bringing an archaeological approach to the topic, she demonstrates the vital role of ritual practice in indigenous ecologies, gendered labour, and the construction of colossal architecture. Examining Maya royalty as a kind of social speciation, McAnany also shows the fundamentality of social difference as well as the pervasiveness of artisan production and marketplaces in ancestral Maya societies. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book situates Maya economies within contemporary social, political, and economic theories of social practice, gender, actor-networks, inalienable goods, materiality, social difference, indigenous ecologies, and strategies of state finance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-13
Mått:140 x 223 x 18 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:386
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107436015

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Patricia McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and President of the Society for Economic Anthropology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr McAnany is the principal investigator of the Xibun Archaeological Research Project (in Belize, Central America). She is the author of Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society and editor of K'axob: Ritual Work and Family in an Ancient Maya Village and Sacred Landscape and Settlement in the Sibun River Valley.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies; 2. Situating Maya societies in space and time; 3. Feeding a hungry landscape; 4. Gendered labor and socially constructed space; 5. Ritual works: monumental architecture and generative schemes of power; 6. Naturalized authority of the royal court; 7. Social identity and daily practice of artisan production; 8. Places, practices, and people of commerce; 9. Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements; 10. Skeining the threads.