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Ancestral Maya economies in archaeological perspective / Patricia A. McAnany.

By: McAnany, Patricia Ann
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xviii, 373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521895187DDC classification: 972.81/016
Contents:
The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies -- Situating Maya societies in space and time -- Feeding a hungry landscape -- Gendered labor and socially constructed space -- Ritual works : monumental architecture and generative schemes of power -- Naturalized authority of the royal court -- Social identity and daily practice of artisan production -- Places, practices, and people of commerce -- Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements -- Skeining the threads.
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Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KUC [McA-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M48091
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Includes bibliography (p.311-362) and index.

The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies -- Situating Maya societies in space and time -- Feeding a hungry landscape -- Gendered labor and socially constructed space -- Ritual works : monumental architecture and generative schemes of power -- Naturalized authority of the royal court -- Social identity and daily practice of artisan production -- Places, practices, and people of commerce -- Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements -- Skeining the threads.

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