| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Terminology; Introduction: Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship; 1. A Brief History of Ancient Maya Kinship Studies; 2. Implications of the Kinship Models; 3. Problems with Models on Ancient Maya Kinship; 4. Archaeological Approaches to Class, Kinship, and Gender; 5. Islas de Los Cerros; 6. Class, Kinship, and Gender at Islas de Los Cerros; 7. Crafting Archaeological Models on Class-Based Kinship; References Cited; Index |
| Summary |
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society. Bradley E. Ensor provides a new theoretical contribution to Maya ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research. Rather than operating solely as a symbolic order unobservable to archaeologists, kinship, according to Ensor, forms concrete social relations that structure daily life and can |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Kinship -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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Mayas -- Marriage customs and rites -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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Mayas -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State) -- Antiquities
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Social groups -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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Social archaeology -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Antiquities
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Mayas -- Antiquities
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Mayas -- Kinship
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Social archaeology
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Social groups
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Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- History
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Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
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Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012020835 |
| ISBN |
9780817386443 |
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0817386440 |
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