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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

Social archaeology --- Social groups --- Mayas --- Archaeology --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Marriage customs and rites --- Kinship. --- Methodology --- Tabasco (Mexico : State) --- Departamento de Tabasco --- Tabasco, Mexico --- Tabasco (Mexico : Department) --- History. --- Kinship --- Departamento de Tabasco (Mexico) --- Табаско (Mexico : State) --- Tabasko (Mexico : State) --- טבסקו (Mexico : State) --- タバスコ州 (Mexico) --- Tabasuko-shū (Mexico) --- タバスコ (Mexico : State) --- Tabasuko (Mexico : State) --- 塔巴斯科州 (Mexico) --- Tabasike Zhou (Mexico) --- 塔巴斯科 (Mexico : State) --- Tabasike (Mexico : State) --- Ταμπάσκο (Mexico : State) --- Tampasko (Mexico : State) --- Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco (Mexico) --- Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco (Mexico) --- Estado de Tabasco (Mexico)