Ancestral Maya economies in archaeological perspective
By: Patricia McAnany.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521895187
Subjects: Mayas -- Economic conditions; Mayas -- Antiquities; Economic history -- To 500; Mexico -- Antiquities; Central America -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Economic conditions; Central America -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies; title: Situating Maya societies in space and time; title: Feeding a hungry landscape; title: Gendered labor and socially constructed space; title: Ritual works : monumental architecture and generative schemes of power; title: Naturalized authority of the royal court; title: Social identity and daily practice of artisan production; title: Places, practices, and people of commerce; title: Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements; title: Skeining the threads.