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- After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Mesoamerican Worlds Series
summary
After Monte Albán reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology.
Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic Oaxaca's central place in the study of Mesoamerican antiquity.
Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland, Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López, Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.
Table of Contents
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- Part I. The Late Classic / Postclassic in Oaxaca—An Introduction
- Part II. Chronology, Continuity, and Disjunction: Etic and Emic Perspectives
- Part III. Continuity and Abandonment of Houses in the Valley of Oaxaca: Lambityeco and Macuilx
- 5. The Classic to Postclassic at Lambityeco
- pp. 171-192
- Part IV. Changing Power Relations and Interaction in the Lower R
- Part V. Sacred History and Legitimization in the Mixteca Alta
- Part VI. New Research Frontiers in Oaxaca and Eastern Guerrero
- List of Contributors
- pp. 427-428
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870819407
Related ISBN(s)
9780870818967, 9781607325970
MARC Record
OCLC
475581882
Pages
456
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No