The political economy of ancient Mesoamerica
Subtitle: transformations during the formative and classic periods
By: edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and John E. Clark.
Contributors: Scarborough, Vernon L., 1950-; Clark, John E.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826342980
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government; Indians of Mexico -- Economic conditions; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Economic anthropology -- Mexico; Social archaeology -- Mexico; Power (Social sciences) -- Mexico; Elite (Social sciences) -- Mexico; Mexico -- Economic conditions; Mexico -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Vernon L. Scarborough and John E. Clark; title: Mesoamerica's first state / by John E. Clark; title: Out of Olmec / by Barbara L. Stark; title: The local village community and the larger political economy : formative and classic interaction patterns in the Tehuacán Valley compared to the valley of Oaxaca and the basin of Mexico / by Robert D. Drennan and Mikael J. Haller; title: Early Teotihuacan and its government / by Jorge Angulo; title: States in prehispanic western Mesoamerica / by Phil C. Weigand; title: Rank-size analysis of classic period settlement in the Tuxtla Mountains, southern Veracruz, Mexico / by Robert S. Santley and Heather M. Richards; title: The socioeconomic organization of the classic period Zapotec state : a bottom-up perspective from El Palmillo / by Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas; title: Reckoning with the wetlands and their role in ancient Maya society / by Kimberly A. Berry and Patricia A. McAnany; title: Colonizing a landscape : water and wetlands in ancient Mesoamerica / by Vernon L. Scarborough; title: The political economy of Mesoamerican states : an economic ethnographer's view / by Rhoda H. Halperin.