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The creation of inequality
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ISBN: 0674064976 0674069730 9780674069732 9780674064973 9780674064690 0674064690 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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The early Mesoamerican village
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ISBN: 1598747835 9781598747836 1598744690 1315418673 1315418681 Year: 2009 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc.,

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One of the classic works of archaeology, The Early Mesoamerican Village was among the first studies to fully embrace the processual movement of the 1970's. Dancing around an ongoing dialogue on methods and goals between the Real Mesoamerican Archaeologist, the Great Synthesizer, and the Skeptical Graduate Student, it is both a seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of studies on formative Mesoamerica. It critically evaluates techniques for excavation, sampling of sites and regions, and stylistic analysis, as well as such theoretical factors of explanation as popular...


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The flocks of the Wamani : a study of llama herders on the punas of Ayacucho, Peru
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ISBN: 1315418517 1315418525 1315418533 159874772X 9781598747720 Year: 2009 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press,

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In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional ar

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