Palaces and power in the Americas
Subtitle: from Peru to the northwest coast
By: edited by Jessica Joyce Christie and Patricia Joan Sarro.
Contributors: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956-; Sarro, Patricia Joan.; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Subjects: Indian architecture -- Congresses; Indians -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Congresses; Chiefdoms -- America -- Congresses; Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses; Elite (Social sciences) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a symposium held at the 2000 Conference of the Society for American Archaeology in Philadelphia.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jessica Joyce Christie; title: Looking for Moche palaces in the elite residences of the Huacas of Moche Site / Claude Chapdelaine; title: Landscape of power : a network of palaces in middle horizon Peru / William H. Isbell; title: Lords of the great house : Pueblo Bonito as a palace / Stephen H. Lekson; title: Sacred and profane mountains of the Pasión : contrasting architectural paths to power / Arthur A. Demarest; title: Political dimensions of monumental residences on the northwest coast of North America / Colin Grier; title: Rising above : the elite acropolis of El Tajín / Patricia Joan Sarro; title: The residence of power at Paso de la Amada, Mexico / Michael Blake ... [et al.]; title: When is a house a palace? : elite residences in the Valley of Oaxaca / Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce; title: Rulership and palaces at Teotihuacan / William T. Sanders and Susan Toby Evans; title: Antecedents of the Aztec palace : palaces and political power in classic and postclassic Mexico / Susan Toby Evans; title: Elite residences at Farfán : a comparison of the Chimú and Inka occupations / Carol Mackey; title: Houses of political power among the ancient Maya and Inka / Jessica Joyce Christie; title: Conclusions / William T. Sanders.