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Indians of Mexico --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Colonisation intérieure --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Types préhistoriques --- Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Oaxaca, Vallée d' (Mexique) --- Mexique --- Monte Alban Site (Mexico) --- Monte Albán (Mexico) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Colonisation intérieure --- Antiquités --- Types préhistoriques --- Oaxaca, Vallée d' (Mexique) --- Demographic archaeology --- Land settlement patterns --- Patterns, Land settlement --- Settlement patterns --- Human geography --- Land settlement --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Archaeology --- Demographic anthropology --- Methodology --- Monte Albán Site (Mexico) --- Valle de Oaxaca (Mexico) --- Antiquities. --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Civilisations precolombiennes

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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions. .

Social stratification --- Sociology --- Politics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- World history --- etnologie --- wereldgeschiedenis --- sociologie --- politiek --- wereldpolitiek --- sociale ongelijkheid --- archeologie

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Over two thousand years ago, Oaxaca, Mexico, was the site of one of the New World's earliest episodes of primary state formation and urbanism, and today it is one of the world's archaeologically best-studied regions. This volume, which thoroughly revises and updates the first edition, provides a highly readable yet comprehensive path to acquaint readers with one of the earliest and best-known examples of Native American state formation and its consequences as seen from the perspectives of urbanism, technology, demography, commerce, households, and religion and ritual. Written by prominent archaeological researchers who have devoted decades to Oaxacan research and to the development of suitable social theory, the book places ancient Oaxaca within the context of the history of ideas that have addressed the causes and consequences of social evolutionary change. It also critically evaluates the potential applicability of more recent thinking about state building grounded in collective action and related theories.

Indians of Mexico --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Monte Albán Site (Mexico) --- Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) --- Archaeology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Ethnology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Valle de Oaxaca (Mexico) --- Monte Albán (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Antiquities

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"Chapter 1 Introduction: Mesoamerica and its pre-Hispanic civilization Some 2,500 years ago in the Valley of Oaxaca, in what is now southern Mexico, a profound social and cultural transformation resulted in the region's first large aggregation of people (thousands) in a hilltop location. This aggregation, at Monte Albán, was accompanied by new institutions and forms of government that were different than any that had developed in the region before. These new, more hierarchical forms of organization developed in a primary or endogenous context (i.e., without the direct influence of peoples or polities from outside the region). The new institutions were political, religious, and economic in nature, and they underpinned practices and demographic processes that endured for centuries. Our aim here is to explore how and why these fundamentally new kinds of institutions developed. Such questions have a long intellectual history, and the origins of more hierarchical forms of governance and new modes of economic transfer remain key research foci for contemporary anthropological archaeology and other historical social sciences. In founding a new, large, hilltop settlement, the pre-Hispanic ancestors of today's inhabitants of the Valley of Oaxaca fashioned a cooperative arrangement that eventually stretched to encompass the entire Valley of Oaxaca (and even regions well beyond). In scale and complexity, it equaled other early polities in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and North China, as well as elsewhere in Mesoamerica such as the Maya"--

Indians of Mexico --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Monte Albán Site (Mexico) --- Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Valle de Oaxaca (Mexico) --- Monte Albán (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Antiquities --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Monte Albán (Mexique : Site archéologique) --- Oaxaca, Vallée d',

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The Lienzo Seler II (Coixtlahuaca II) from the collection of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin is one of the most impressive objects presented at the Humboldt Forum. Mixtekian and Chocho authors produced the large 383 cm x 442 cm cotton cloth in the 16th century in the valley of Coixtlahuaca (Oaxaca, Mexico) to document the origin of their rulers and the founding of their settlements in the multiethnic valley. They recorded events that span a period of more than 500 years into the early Spanish colonial period, and make their claim to power, land and privileges visible in the style of the pre-Romanesque picture. The document is named after its collector Eduard Seler, who brought it to Berlin in 1897. For the first time, the Lienzo is published in numerous detailed illustrations and interpreted by 10 international experts according to the latest findings.

textile art [visual works] --- Amerindian [culture] --- cotton [textile] --- Seler, Eduard Georg --- anno 1500-1599 --- Oaxaca