On the Periphery of the Periphery [electronic resource] : Household Archaeology at Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi, Yucatán, Mexico /
Sweitz, Samuel.author.
This volume examines the social and economic changes that characterized Yucatán, Mexico, circa the late 18th through early 19th centuries, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange.  This work, utilizing archaeological, ethnohistorical, documentary, and oral history evidence, traces the economic and social effects that the rise and ultimate supremacy of capitalist organized production in the form of the hacienda system had on native Maya social organization in the northern Yucatán peninsula.  Archaeological investigations conducted on the grounds of the former Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi reveal how the local, expressed in material culture remains and the landscape of the hacienda, articulated with larger global processes to create change in the lives of those individuals incorporated within the hacienda system.  Fundamental shifts in the organization and relations of production led to new forms of domestic organization and new expressions of social status, wealth, and power within the physical and social landscape of the hacienda.  Using a total history approach, this volume explores how changes in the lives of the workers at the hacienda reflect historically particular local negotiations with the social, political, and economic realities of an evolving global system of capitalist based production, circulation, and consumption.
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On the Periphery of the Periphery; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: On the Periphery of the Periphery; Introduction; Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Yucatán; Household Archaeology at Hacienda Tabi; The Work at Hand; References; Chapter 2: A Theoretical Context for Documenting Social Change in Yucatán: Changing Modes of Production and the Entry of the Yucatec Maya into the World System; Introduction; The Unifying Value of World-Systems Theory; The World System: Definitions and Components; The Concept of Production and Modes of Production
The Coexistence of Modes of ProductionModes of Production: Kin-Ordered, Tributary, and Capitalist Production; The "Local" in a Capitalist World-System; Plantations as Capitalist Industrial Institutions; References; Chapter 3: A Theoretical Context for Documenting Social Change in Yucatán, Part 2: Culture Change, Social Stratification, and Power Relationships; The Character of Social Stratification; Occupation and Status; Power Relationships; Domination and Resistance; Public Versus Hidden Transcripts; Public Versus Hidden Transcripts on the Hacienda; The Nature of the System in Yucatán
ReferencesChapter 4: Methodological Approaches to the Social and Economic Dynamics of Life on a Hacienda; The Confluence of Archaeology and History: Annales Methodology and Archaeology; Framework of the Study; Problem History: Uniting Geological, Social, and Individual Time; Household Archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology of the Maya Household; Household Behavior and Material Culture; The Built Environment; Household Artifact Assemblages; Archaeological Markers of Stratification: Household Wealth; Markers of Stratification; Working Assumptions; References
Chapter 5: A Historical Outline of Hacienda San Juan Bautista TabiReferences; Chapter 6: Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Tabi; Primeras Impresiones (First Impressions); The Hacienda Tabi Project; The Physical Layout of the Hacienda; Comparison of Dwelling Type Labor Costs at Hacienda Tabi; The Hacienda Settlement Pattern; Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Tabi; Block-wide Behavioral Patterns; Excavating Households on the Hacienda; Excavations at House 3; Excavations at House 4; Discussion of Diagnostic Artifact Classes; The Implications of Archaeology at Hacienda Tabi
Household Wealth at Hacienda TabiQuantity; Quality; Variety; The Meaning of Household Wealth on the Hacienda; References; Chapter 7: The Long Duration: The Geohistory of the Yucatán Peninsula; Introduction; Geohistory; Landforms; Water Resources; Climate and Weather Patterns; Environmental Trends; Drought in the Maya Lowlands; Vegetation and Soil Types; Vegetation; Soil Types; Maya Agrotechnologies; References; Chapter 8: The Long Duration: The Cultural History of Yucatán; The Classic Background of Northern Lowland Culture; The Rise of Chichen Itza; The Confederacy of Mayapan
The Postclassic Tradition of Northern Yucatán
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume examines the social and economic changes that characterized Yucatán, Mexico, circa the late 18th through early 19th centuries, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange.  This work, utilizing archaeological, ethnohistorical, documentary, and oral history evidence, traces the economic and social effects that the rise and ultimate supremacy of capitalist organized production in the form of the hacienda system had on native Maya social organization in the northern Yucatán peninsula.  Archaeological investigations conducted on the grounds of the former Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi reveal how the local, expressed in material culture remains and the landscape of the hacienda, articulated with larger global processes to create change in the lives of those individuals incorporated within the hacienda system.  Fundamental shifts in the organization and relations of production led to new forms of domestic organization and new expressions of social status, wealth, and power within the physical and social landscape of the hacienda.  Using a total history approach, this volume explores how changes in the lives of the workers at the hacienda reflect historically particular local negotiations with the social, political, and economic realities of an evolving global system of capitalist based production, circulation, and consumption.
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