Political Strategies In Pre-columbian Mesoamerica

ISBN: 9781607324157 出版年：2016 页码：309 Kurnick, Sarah Baron, Joanne University Press of Colorado

New data from a variety of well-known scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology reveal the creation, perpetuation, and contestation of politically authoritative relationships between rulers and subjects and between nobles and commoners. The contributions span the geographic breadth and temporal extent of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica鈥攆rom Preclassic Oaxaca to the Classic Pet茅n region of Guatemala to the Postclassic Michoac谩n鈥攁nd the contributors weave together archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric data. Grappling with the questions of how those exercising authority convince others to follow and why individuals often choose to recognize and comply with authority, Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica discusses why the study of political authority is both timely and significant, reviews how scholars have historically understood the operation of political authority, and proposes a new analytical framework to understand how rulers rule.