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The postclassic Mesoamerican world
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- Creator
- edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780874807349, 0874807344
- OCLC
- ocm50503226
- Based on a conference held April 1999 at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-371) and index.
- Pt. 1. An Ancient World System -- 1. Postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan -- 2. Conceptualizing Macroregional Interaction: World-Systems Theory and the Archaeological Record / Susan Kepecs and Philip Kohl -- 3. Spatial Structure of the Mesoamerican World System / Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan -- Pt. 2. Polities -- 4. Small Polities in Postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith -- 5. Political Organization in Yucatan and Belize / Susan Kepecs and Marilyn A. Masson -- 6. Highland Maya Polities / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- 7. The Polities of Xoconochco / Janine Gasco -- 8. West Mexico beyond the Tarascan Frontier / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- 9. Aztec City-States in the Basin of Mexico and Morelos / Michael E. Smith -- 10. Creation Stories, Hero Cults, and Alliance Building: Confederacies of Central and Southern Mexico / John M. D. Pohl -- 11. The Aztec Empire / Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith -- 12. Borders in the Eastern Aztec Empire / Frances F. Berdan -- 13. The Tarascan Empire / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- 14. The Aztec/Tarascan Border / Helen Perlstein Pollard and Michael E. Smith -- Pt. 3. Economic Networks -- 15. The Economy of Postclassic Mesoamerica / Frances F. Berdan -- 16. An International Economy / Frances F. Berdan, Marilyn A. Masson, Janine Gasco and Michael E. Smith -- 17. International Trade Centers / Janine Gasco and Frances F. Berdan -- 18. Key Commodities / Michael E. Smith -- 19. Salt Sources and Production / Susan Kepecs -- 20. Obsidian Exchange Spheres / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- 21. Metal Production / Dorothy Hosler -- 22. Ritual Ideology and Commerce in the Southern Mexican Highlands / John M. D. Pohl -- Pt. 4. Information Networks -- 23. Information Networks in Postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith -- 24. Postclassic International Styles and Symbol Sets / Elizabeth H. Boone and Michael E. Smith -- 25. The Late Postclassic Symbol Set in the Maya Area / Marilyn A. Masson -- 26. Ritual and Iconographic Variability in Mixteca-Puebla Polychrome Pottery / John M. D. Pohl -- 27. A Web of Understanding: Pictorial Codices and the Shared Intellectual Culture of Late Postclassic Mesoamerica / Elizabeth H. Boone -- Pt. 5. Regional Case Studies -- 28. Themes in World-System Regions / Frances F. Berdan -- 29. Development of a Tarascan Core: The Lake Patzcuaro Basin / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- 30. The Evolution of a Core Zone: The Basin of Mexico / Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith -- 31. Royal Marriage and Confederacy Building among the Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs / John M. D. Pohl -- 32. Economic Change in Morelos Households / Michael E. Smith -- 33. Chikinchel / Susan M. Kepecs -- 34. Economic Patterns in Northern Belize / Marilyn A. Masson -- 35. Soconusco / Janine Gasco -- 36. K'iche'an Origins, Symbolic Emulation, and Ethnogenesis in the Maya Highlands, A.D. 1450-1524 / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- Pt. 6. Synthesis and Comparisons -- 37. Different Hemispheres, Different Worlds / Philip L. Kohl and Evgenij N. Chernykh -- 38. A Perspective on Late Postclassic Mesoamerica / Frances F. Berdan, Susan Kepecs and Michael E. Smith
Subjects
- Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
- Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
- Social systems -- Congresses.
- Indians of Mexico -- Commerce -- Congresses.
- Indians of Central America -- Commerce -- Congresses.
- Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
- Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.