After Monte Albán : transformation and negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.
Description:xvi, 438 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Mesoamerican worlds
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6832986
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Other authors / contributors:Blomster, Jeffrey P. (Jeffrey Paul)
ISBN:9780870818967 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0870818961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part I. The Late Classic / Postclassic in Oaxaca-An Introduction
  • 1. Changing Cloud Formations: The Sociopolitics of Oaxaca in Late Classic / Postclassic Mesoamerica
  • Part II. Chronology, Continuity, and Disjunction: Etic and Emic Perspectives
  • 2. Advances in Defining the Classic-Postclassic Portion of the Valley of Oaxaca Ceramic Chronology: Occurrence and Phyletic Seriation
  • 3. The Postclassic Period in the Valley of Oaxaca: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Records
  • 4. Heirlooms and Ruins: High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Postclassic Oaxacan Tradition
  • Part III. Continuity and Abandonment of Houses in the Valley of Oaxaca: Lambityeco and Macuilxochitl
  • 5. The Classic to Postclassic at Lambityeco
  • 6. Ethnohistory, Oral History, and Archaeology at Macuilxochitl: Perspectives on the Postclassic Period (800-1521 CE) in the Valley of Oaxaca
  • Part IV. Changing Power Relations and Interaction in the Lower Rio Verde Valley
  • 7. Domination, Negotiation, and Collapse: A History of Centralized Authority on the Oaxaca Coast before the Late Postclassic
  • 8. Interregional Networks of the Oaxacan Early Postclassic: Connecting the Coast and the Highlands
  • Part V. Sacred History and Legitimization in the Mixteca Alta
  • 9. Legitimization, Negotiation, and Appropriation in Postclassic Oaxaca: Mixtec Stone Codices
  • 10. Tree Birth, the Solar Oracle, and Achiutla: Mixtec Sacred History and the Classic to Postclassic Transition
  • Part VI. New Research Frontiers in Oaxaca and Eastern Guerrero
  • 11. Classic and Postclassic Archaeological Features of the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua Region of Guerrero: Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me the Classic Period Was Over?
  • 12. Classic to Postclassic in Four Oaxaca Regions: The Mazateca, the Chinantla, the Mixe Region, and the Southern Isthmus
  • List of Contributors
  • Index