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| Other authors / contributors: | García-Des Lauriers, Claudia, 1976- editor.
Love, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781607815051
1607815052
9781607815044
1607815044
1607815052
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "A series of case studies with varied approaches to how identity is revealed in the archaeological record of the Pacific coast and highlands of southeastern Mesoamerica. The Pacific coast and southern highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala is a region significant to debates about the origins of social complexity, interaction, and colonialism. The area, however, has received uneven attention and much of what we know is largely restricted to the Preclassic period. This theoretically eclectic volume presents greater temporal coverage, is geographically unified, and engages some of the most important questions of each period through a discussion of the archaeology of identity. Chapters range from traditional assessments of identity to discussion of practice and relational personhood; all share a concern for how archaeology and ethnohistory provide opportunities and challenges in the reconstruction of identities. The region is one with a multifaceted history of interactions between local populations and those from other parts of Mesoamerica. Linguistic diversity, landscape, and artistic representations have added to the complexities of understanding identity formation here. Rather than providing a unified voice on the issues, Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica is a dialogue presented through case studies, one that will hopefully encourage future research in this complex and little understood region of Mesoamerica"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016] 9781607815044
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