Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley /

Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Marcus, Joyce.
Imprint:	New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1996.
Description:	255 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New aspects of antiquity.
Subject:	Zapotec Indians -- Antiquities. Zapotec Indians -- Politics and government. Land settlement -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley. Antiquities. Civilization. Excavations (Archaeology) Land settlement. Zapotec Indians -- Antiquities. Zapotec Indians -- Politics and government. Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) -- Antiquities. Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2439744

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Other authors / contributors:	Flannery, Kent V.
ISBN:	0500050783
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. The Zapotec and the Valley of Oaxaca
2. Ethnogenesis and Social Evolution
3. The Late Ice Age and the Strategy of High Mobility
4. Coping with Risk at the Local Level
5. Agriculture as an Extension of Foraging Strategy
6. Learning to Live in Villages
7. Creating Prestige in Egalitarian Society
8. The Emergence of Rank and the Loss of Autonomy
9. Alliance Building and Elite Competition
10. Chiefly Warfare and Early Writing
11. The Monte Alban Synoikism
12. The Unification of the Valley of Oaxaca
13. The Emergence of the Zapotec State
14. Colonization and Conquest
15. The Golden Age of Zapotec Civilization
16. Evolution without Stages.