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Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires
R. Alan Covey Christina M. Elson
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
From the Mesoamerican highlands to the Colca Valley in Peru, pre-Columbian civilizations were bastions of power that have largely been viewed through the lens of rulership, or occasionally through bottom-up perspectives of resistance. Rather than focusing on rulers or peasants, this book examines how intermediate elites both men and women?helped to develop, sustain, and resist state policies and institutions. Employing new archaeological and ethnohistorical data, its contributors trace a 2,000-year trajectory of elite social evolution in the Zapotec, Wari, Aztec, Inka, and Maya civilizations. This is the first volume to consider how individuals subordinate to imperial rulers helped to shape ... Read more
From the Mesoamerican highlands to the Colca Valley in Peru, pre-Columbian civilizations were bastions of power that have largely been viewed through the lens of rulership, or occasionally through bottom-up perspectives of resistance. Rather than focusing on rulers or peasants, this book examines how intermediate elites both men and women?helped to develop, sustain, and resist state policies and institutions. Employing new archaeological and ethnohistorical data, its contributors trace a 2,000-year trajectory of elite social evolution in the Zapotec, Wari, Aztec, Inka, and Maya civilizations. This is the first volume to consider how individuals subordinate to imperial rulers helped to shape ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816524761
SKU
V9780816524761
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