The Postclassic Mesoamerican World,9780874807349

The Postclassic Mesoamerican World

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ISBN13: 9780874807349
ISBN10: 0874807344
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-23
Publisher(s): Univ of Utah Pr
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Summary

Thirty-eight chapters by twelve contributors provide a social and cultural analysis of life in ancient Mexico and Central America.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface xiii
PART 1. An Ancient World System
Postclassic Mesoamerica
3(11)
Michael E. Smith
Frances F. Berdan
Conceptualizing Macroregional Interaction: World-Systems Theory and the Archaeological Record
14(7)
Susan Kepecs
Philip Kohl
Spatial Structure of the Mesoamerican World System
21(14)
Michael E. Smith
Frances F. Berdan
PART 2. Polities
Small Polities in Postclassic Mesoamerica
35(5)
Michael E. Smith
Political Organization in Yucatan and Belize
40(5)
Susan Kepecs
Marilyn A. Masson
Highland Maya Polities
45(5)
Geoffrey E. Braswell
The Polities of Xoconochco
50(5)
Janine Gasco
West Mexico beyond the Tarascan Frontier
55(3)
Helen Perlstein Pollard
Aztec City-States in the Basin of Mexico and Morelos
58(3)
Michael E. Smith
Creation Stories, Hero Cults, and Alliance Building: Confederacies of Central and Southern Mexico
61(6)
John M. D. Pohl
The Aztec Empire
67(6)
Frances F. Berdan
Michael E. Smith
Borders in the Eastern Aztec Empire
73(5)
Frances F. Berdan
The Tarascan Empire
78(9)
Helen Perlstein Pollard
The Aztec/Tarascan Border
87(6)
Helen Perlstein Pollard
Michael E. Smith
PART 3. Economic Networks
The Economy of Postclassic Mesoamerica
93(3)
Frances F. Berdan
An International Economy
96(13)
Frances F. Berdan
Marilyn A. Masson
Janine Gasco
Michael E. Smith
International Trade Centers
109(8)
Janine Gasco
Frances F. Berdan
Key Commodities
117(9)
Michael E. Smith
Salt Sources and Production
126(5)
Susan Kepecs
Obsidian Exchange Spheres
131(28)
Geoffrey E. Braswell
Metal Production
159(13)
Dorothy Hosler
Ritual Ideology and Commerce in the Southern Mexican Highlands
172(9)
John M. D. Pohl
PART 4. Information Networks
Information Networks in Postclassic Mesoamerica
181(5)
Michael E. Smith
Postclassic International Styles and Symbol Sets
186(8)
Elizabeth H. Boone
Michael E. Smith
The Late Postclassic Symbol Set in the Maya Area
194(7)
Marilyn A. Masson
Ritual and Iconographic Variability in Mixteca-Puebla Polychrome Pottery
201(6)
John M. D. Pohl
A Web of Understanding: Pictorial Codices and the Shared Intellectual Culture of Late Postclassic Mesoamerica
207(18)
Elizabeth H. Boone
PART 5. Regional Case Studies
Themes in World-System Regions
225(2)
Frances F. Berdan
Development of a Tarascan Core: The Lake Patzcuaro Basin
227(11)
Helen Perlstein Pollard
The Evolution of a Core Zone: The Basin of Mexico
238(5)
Frances F. Berdan
Michael E. Smith
Royal Marriage and Confederacy Building among the Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs
243(6)
John M. D. Pohl
Economic Change in Morelos Households
249(10)
Michael E. Smith
Chikinchel
259(10)
Susan M. Kepecs
Economic Patterns in Northern Belize
269(13)
Marilyn A. Masson
Soconusco
282(15)
Janine Gasco
K'iche'an Origins, Symbolic Emulation, and Ethnogenesis in the Maya Highlands, A.D. 1450--1524
297(10)
Geoffrey E. Braswell
PART 6. Synthesis and Comparisons
Different Hemispheres, Different Worlds
307(6)
Philip L. Kohl
Evgenij N. Chernykh
A Perspective on Late Postclassic Mesoamerica
313(6)
Frances F. Berdan
Susan Kepecs
Michael E. Smith
Notes 319(8)
References Cited 327(46)
Index 373

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