Description
Book SynopsisThis pathfinding book marshals a wide array of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence to offer the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners.
Trade Review"This is a landmark volume that begins to fill a longstanding and critical gap in our understanding of the ancient Maya... [It] will serve as an essential work for students and professional scholars alike to begin to correct the prevalent emphasis on the elite Maya." Robert J. Sharer, Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Examining Ancient Maya Commoners Anew (Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez, Jr.)
- 2. Daily Life in a Highland Maya Community: Zinacantan in Mid-Twentieth Century (Evon Z. Vogt)
- 3. The Role of Pottery and Food Consumption among Late Preclassic Maya Commoners at Lamanai, Belize (Terry G. Powis)
- 4. Of Salt and Water: Ancient Commoners on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala (Bárbara Arroyo)
- 5. Down on the Farm: Classic Maya "Homesteads" as "Farmsteads" (Nicholas Dunning)
- 6. Intra-Site Settlement Signatures and Implications for Late Classic Maya Commoner Organization at Dos Hombres, Belize (Jon C. Lohse)
- 7. Heterogeneous Hinterlands: The Social and Political Organization of Commoner Settlements near Xunantunich, Belize (Jason Yaeger and Cynthia Robin)
- 8. The Spatial Mobility of Non-Elite Populations in Classic Maya Society and Its Political Implications (Takeshi Inomata)
- 9. Commoners in Postclassic Maya Society: Social versus Economic Class Constructs (Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope)
- 10. Methods for Understanding Classic Maya Commoners: Structure Function, Energetics, and More (Nancy Gonlin)
- 11. Maya Commoners: The Stereotype and the Reality (Joyce Marcus)
- Contributors
- Index
