Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos : ancient peoples of southern Mexico /
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| Author / Creator: | Joyce, Arthur A. |
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| Imprint: | Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 351 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Peoples of America Peoples of America series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7901656 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1. People, Culture, and History
- Sources of Evidence
- Theorizing Oaxaca's Ancient Past
- 2. Peoples and Landscapes on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
- The Physical Geography of Oaxaca
- Mixtec and Zapotec Peoples at the Time of the Spanish Conquest
- 3. From Foragers to Village Life
- First Peoples
- The Archaic Period and the Origins of Agriculture
- The Transition to Sedentism
- Negotiating Initial Village Life
- 4. Negotiating Community and Complexity
- Constructing Community and Identity in the Early Formative
- Community and Identity in the Early Middle Formative
- Structures of Authority in the Early to Middle Formative
- 5. From Village to City: The Founding and Early Development of Monte Albán
- The Late Middle Formative Political Crisis
- The Founding of Monte Albán
- Political Consolidation and Upheaval at Monte Albán
- 6. Political Centralization in the Mixteca and Coast
- Social Transformations in the Mixtec Highlands
- Interregional Interaction and the Rise of Mixtec Centers
- Political Authority and Ideology
- Urbanization in the Lower Río Verde Valley
- Political Collapse in the Mixteca and the Oaxaca Coast
- 7. Authority and Polity in the Classic Period
- Classic-Period Society in the Valley of Oaxaca
- Classic-Period Polities of the Mixtec Highlands
- Political Fragmentation and Centralization on the Oaxaca Coast
- 8. Collapse and Reemergence
- The Collapse in the Oaxacan Highlands
- The Classic-Period Collapse and the Early Postclassic on the Oaxaca Coast
- Postclassic Heroic History
- Lord 8 Deer "Jaguar Claw" and the Archaeology of Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa)
- Late Postclassic Archaeology of the Oaxacan Highlands
- The Spanish Conquest
- 9. Conclusions
- Beyond Functionalism and Neo-Evolutionism in Oaxaca
- Poststructural Theory and the Archaeology of the Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino
- Endnotes
- Bibliography|299
- Index|336
