Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania)

Ancient Maya Politics

A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ancient Maya Politics is distinctive in constituting the first book-length treatment of this issue using original texts to be published in over four decades. With a rich body of new data and a wide-ranging theoretical analysis, it debunks some long-held ideas and suggests fresh ways to look at this long-enigmatic society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1026g
• ISBN-13: 9781108705233
• ISBN-10: 1108705235
• Artikelnr.: 64171796

Autorenporträt

Simon Martin is an Associate Curator and Keeper at the Penn Museum and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-author of Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens (2008) and Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (2004). He is currently the 2019¿2020 Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the questions
Part I. Agendas in Classic Maya Politics: 2. Modelling the Maya
3. On archaeopolitics
4. Worlds in words
Part II. Epigraphic Data on Classic Maya Politics: 5. Identity
6. Constitution
7. Transcendence
8. Matrimony
9. Conflict
10. Hierarchy
11. Coda
Part III. A Political Anthropology of the Classic Maya
12. Classic Maya networks
13. Defining classic Maya political culture
14. Hegemony in practice and theory
15. Summary and conclusions: a society of kings.