After Monte Albán
Title | After Monte Albán PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey P. Blomster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2008-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
After Monte Albán reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic Oaxaca's central place in the study of Mesoamerican antiquity. Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland, Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López, Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I
Title | Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I PDF eBook |
Author | Richard E. Blanton |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | 523 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0932206913 |
The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State
Title | The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew K. Balkansky |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 091570353X |
The Danzantes of Monte Albán
Title | The Danzantes of Monte Albán PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Scott |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780884020790 |
John Scott looks at the characteristics, stylistic evolution, ceramic relationships, and dating of the Danzantes of Monte Albán. The volume includes an illustrated catalogue of the reliefs and an appendix on their petrography and pigmentation.
Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II
Title | Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Kowalewski |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | 1168 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0915703750 |
The Olmec World
Title | The Olmec World PDF eBook |
Author | Ignacio Bernal |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520028913 |
Examines Olmec art, society, and religious beliefs. Traces the efflorescence and decline of the Olmecs, but insists on the basic unity of all Mesoamerican civilization.
Social Inequality in Oaxaca
Title | Social Inequality in Oaxaca PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur D. Murphy |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780877228684 |
Analyzes the urbanization of one area from its origins more than two thousand years ago. This book examines Oaxaca, Mexico, paying particular attention to neighborhoods, families and economic activities, and focuses on issues of poverty and inequality.