Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Networks of Power describes who was involved in these competitions and in which network drew participated; what resources were mustered within these webs; which projects were fueled by these assets; and how, and to what extent, they contributed to the achievement of political aims. --Book Jacket. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the Late Postclassic period using components of three settlements in the Naco Valley of northwestern Honduras, the book focuses on how contests for power shaped political structures. Power-seeking individuals, including but not restricted to ruling elites, depended on network of allies to support their political objectives. Ongoing and partially successful competitions waged within networks led to the incorporation of exotic ideas and imported items into the daily practices of all Naco Valley occupants. The result was a fragile hierarchical structure forever vulnerable to the initiatives of agents operating on local and distant stages. -- Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. Networks of Power fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. --

Sociology / General --- Naco Valley (Honduras) --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Valle de Naco (Honduras) --- Social archaeology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Power (Social sciences) --- Mayas --- Antiquities. --- Politics and government. --- Kings and rulers. --- Archaeology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Methodology --- Ceramic --- Chert --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican chronology --- Midden --- Obsidian --- Perlite --- Pottery --- Stone tool

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Central America --- Amérique centrale

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Quiriguá Site (Guatemala) --- Quiriguá (Guatémala : site archéologique)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contac

Ethnoarchaeology. --- Acculturation. --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Methodology --- Culture contact (Acculturation)