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Title Palaces and power in the Americas : from Peru to the northwest coast / edited by Jessica Joyce Christie and Patricia Joan Sarro
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
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Contents Introduction / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Looking for Moche palaces in the elite residences of the Huacas of Moche Site / Claude Chapdelaine -- Landscape of power : a network of palaces in middle horizon Peru / William H. Isbell -- Lords of the great house : Pueblo Bonito as a palace / Stephen H. Lekson -- Sacred and profane mountains of the Pasión : contrasting architectural paths to power / Arthur A. Demarest -- Political dimensions of monumental residences on the northwest coast of North America / Colin Grier -- Rising above : the elite acropolis of El Tajín / Patricia Joan Sarro -- The residence of power at Paso de la Amada, Mexico / Michael Blake [and others] -- When is a house a palace? : elite residences in the Valley of Oaxaca / Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce -- Rulership and palaces at Teotihuacan / William T. Sanders and Susan Toby Evans -- Antecedents of the Aztec palace : palaces and political power in classic and postclassic Mexico / Susan Toby Evans -- Elite residences at Farfán : a comparison of the Chimú and Inka occupations / Carol Mackey -- Houses of political power among the ancient Maya and Inka / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Conclusions / William T. Sanders
Notes Based on a symposium held at the 2000 Conference of the Society for American Archaeology in Philadelphia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indian architecture -- Congresses
Indians -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Congresses
Chiefdoms -- America -- Congresses
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses
Elite (Social sciences) -- Congresses
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Chiefdoms
Elite (Social sciences)
Indian architecture
Indians -- Kings and rulers
Indians -- Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Macht
Architektur
Palast
Archeologie.
Paleizen.
Heersers.
Indianen.
America
Altamerika
Amerika.
Indianer.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956-
Sarro, Patricia Joan
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (2000 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
LC no. 2005022928
ISBN 0292796102
9780292796102