Faces of rulership in the Maya region /

"Authority-whether royal, divine, material, fleeting, or enduring-varied across space and time in the Maya region, from its Preclassic dynastic origins through the colonial encounters of the sixteenth century. The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material...

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Corporate Author: Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium "Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region" Online
Other Authors: McAnany, Patricia Ann (Editor), Masson, Marilyn A. (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, [2024]
Series:Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region / Patricia A. McAnany and Marilyn A. Masson
  • Rulers, Relatives, and Royal Courts: Excavating the Foundations of Classic Maya Alliance and Conflict / David Freidel
  • Whose Mountains? The Royal Body in the Built Environment / Alexandre Tokovinine, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Vilma Fialko
  • Masked Intentions: The Expression of Leadership in Northern Yucatán / William M. Ringle
  • Relatively Strange Rulers: Relational Politics in the Southern and Northern Maya Lowlands / Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Patricia A. McAnany
  • Strange and Familiar Queens at Maya Royal Courts / Traci Ardren
  • Patron Deities and Rulership across the Maya Lowlands / Joanne Baron
  • Temporalities of Royal Costume in the Maya Lowlands / Christina T. Halperin
  • Maya Gastropolitics: Strategies, Tactics, Entrapments / Shanti Morell-Hart
  • Le roi est mort, vive le roi. Examining the Rise, Apogee, and Decline of Maya Kingship in Central Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Christophe Helmke, Claire E. Ebert, and Julie A. Hoggarth
  • Jaina Figurines: Contexts and Social Linkages on the Western Side of the Maya World / Antonio Benavides C.
  • Postclassic- and Contact-Period Maya Rulership / Marilyn A. Masson
  • Denying the Rights of "Natural Lords": Maya Elite Struggles for Rewards and Recognition in Colonial Yucatán, 1550-1750 / John F. Chuchiak IV
  • Toward a New Framework for Comparing Ancient and Modern Forms of Social Domination (or, "Whatever Happened to the Archaic State?") / David Wengrow
  • Relationships of Command: From Sovereignty to Anarchy / Scott R. Hutson.