Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society. Bradley E. Ensor provides a new theoretical contribution to Maya ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research. Rather than operating solely as a symbolic order unobservable to archaeologists, kinship, accord…

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship / Bradley E. Ensor.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Alabama Press
Place of Publication:Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817386443, 0817386440
oclc:ocn823738669
LC Classification:F1435.1.T33
Dewey Decimal:972/.63

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Terminology; Introduction: Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship; 1. A Brief History of Ancient Maya Kinship Studies; 2. Implications of the Kinship Models; 3. Problems with Models on Ancient Maya Kinship; 4. Archaeological Approaches to Class, Kinship, and Gender; 5. Islas de Los Cerros; 6. Class, Kinship, and Gender at Islas de Los Cerros; 7. Crafting Archaeological Models on Class-Based Kinship; References Cited; Index.

Subjects

Antiquities Archéologie sociale -- Mexique History HISTORY -- Latin America Mayas -- Antiquités. -- Mexique Mayas -- Antiquities Mayas -- Antiquities. -- Mexico Mayas -- Kinship Mayas -- Kinship -- Mexico Mayas -- Marriage customs and rites -- … Mayas -- Parenté -- Mexique Mayas -- Rites et cérémonies du mariage… Mexico -- Tabasco (State) Social archaeology Social archaeology -- Mexico Social groups Social groups -- Mexico Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- History Tabasco (Mexique : État) -- Histoire