Crafting prehispanic Maya kinship / Bradley E. Ensor.
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TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780817386443
- 0817386440
- Mayas -- Kinship -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
- Mayas -- Marriage customs and rites -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
- Mayas -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State) -- Antiquities
- Social groups -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
- Social archaeology -- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
- Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- History
- Tabasco (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
- Mayas -- Parenté -- Mexique -- Tabasco (État)
- Mayas -- Rites et cérémonies du mariage -- Mexique -- Tabasco (État)
- Mayas -- Mexique -- Tabasco (État) -- Antiquités
- Archéologie sociale -- Mexique -- Tabasco (État)
- Tabasco (Mexique : État) -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico
- Antiquities
- Mayas -- Antiquities
- Mayas -- Kinship
- Social archaeology
- Social groups
- Mexico -- Tabasco (State)
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- F1435.1.T33 E67 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Terminology; Introduction: Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship; 1. A Brief History of Ancient Maya Kinship Studies; 2. Implications of the Kinship Models; 3. Problems with Models on Ancient Maya Kinship; 4. Archaeological Approaches to Class, Kinship, and Gender; 5. Islas de Los Cerros; 6. Class, Kinship, and Gender at Islas de Los Cerros; 7. Crafting Archaeological Models on Class-Based Kinship; References Cited; Index.
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society. Bradley E. Ensor provides a new theoretical contribution to Maya ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research. Rather than operating solely as a symbolic order unobservable to archaeologists, kinship, according to Ensor, forms concrete social relations that structure daily life and can.
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