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Caciques and Their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores
Edited by Joyce Marcus and Judith Francis Zeitlin
A volume of essays by Mesoamerican scholars on topics ranging from Zapotec archaeology to Cuicatec irrigation and Mixtec codices to Aztec ethnohistory. Authors use a direct historical approach, the comparative method, or develop models that contribute to ethnological and archaeological theory. Contributors: J. Chance, G. Feinman, K.V. Flannery, F. Hicks, R. Hunt, M. Lind, J. Marcus, J. Monaghan, J. Paddock, E. Redmond, M. Romero Frizzi, M.E. Smith, C. Spencer, and J. Zeitlin.
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Preface / Joyce Marcus and Judith Francis Zeitlin
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Chapter 1. Retired? You Must be Kidding! A Tribute to Ronald Spores / Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery
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Chapter 2. Toward an Archaeology without Polarization: Comments on Contemporary Theory / Gary M. Feinman
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Chapter 3. Indian Elites in Late Colonial Mesoamerica / John K. Chance
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Chapter 4. Xaltocan under Mexica Domination, 1435-1520 / Frederic Hicks
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Chapter 5. The Obverse of the Codex of Cholula: Defining the Borders of the Kingdom of Cholula / Michael Lind
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Chapter 6. A Codex Style Vessel from Nochixtlan, Oaxaca / John Paddock
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Chapter 7. Why the Second Codex Selden Was Painted / Mary Elizabeth Smith
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Chapter 8. Irrigation and Ecological Complementarity in Mixtec Cacicazgos / John Monaghan
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Chapter 9. Irrigation in Cuicatlán: The Question of Río Grande Waters / Robert C. Hunt
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Chapter 10. The Cacicazgo: An Indigenous Design / Elsa M. Redmond and Charles S. Spencer
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Chapter 11. Indigenous Mentality and Spanish Power: The Conquest in Oaxaca / María de los Angeles Romero Frizzi
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Chapter 12. A Zapotec Inauguration in Comparative Perspective / Joyce Marcus
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Chapter 13. Precolumbian Barrio Organization in Tehuantepec, Mexico / Judith Francis Zeitlin
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Published: 1994
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-1-949098-83-9 (ebook)
- 978-0-915703-37-1 (paper)