Intermediate elites in pre-Columbian states and empires
By: Christina M. Elson and R. Alan Covey, editors.
Contributors: Elson, Christina M., 1969-; Covey, R. Alan, 1974-; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780816524761
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Kings and rulers -- Congresses; Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Indians of South America -- Kings and rulers -- Congresses; Indians of South America -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Territorial expansion -- Latin America -- Congresses; Elites (Social sciences) -- Latin America -- Congresses; Power (Social sciences) -- Latin America; Latin America -- Antiquities; Latin America -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a symposium held during the 67th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver in Mar. 2002.
Table of contents: title: Intermediate elites in new world states and empires / Christina M. Elson and R. Alan Covey; title: Resistance strategies and early state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond; title: Intermediate elites and the political landscape of the early Zapotec state / Christina M. Elson; title: Intermediate-elite agency in the Wari empire : the bioarchaeological and mortuary evidence / Tiffiny A. Tung and Anita G. Cook; title: The role of intermediate elites in the balkanization and reformation of post-Wari society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee and Katharina Schreiber; title: Intermediate elites in the Inka heartland, A.D. 1000-1500 / R. Alan Covey; title: The management of scale or the creation of scale : administrative processes in two Inka provinces / Craig Morris and R. Alan Covey; title: The role of provincial elites in the Aztec empire / Frances Berdan; title: Provincial elites and the limits of dominant ideology in the Aztec empire / Elizabeth Brumfiel; title: Collagua "eco-logistics" : intermediate elites and hybrid community structures in the Colca Valley, Peru / Steven Wernke; title: Identifying elites and their strategies / Joyce Marcus.