TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arroyo,Bárbara
AU  - Dunning,Nicholas
AU  - Gonlin,Nancy
AU  - Inomata,Takeshi
AU  - Lohse,Jon C.
AU  - Lope,Carlos Peraza
AU  - Marcus,Joyce
AU  - Masson,Marilyn A.
AU  - Powis,Terry G.
AU  - Robin,Cynthia
AU  - Valdez Jr,Fred
AU  - Valdez,Fred
AU  - Vogt,Evon Z.
AU  - Yaeger,Jason
TI  - Ancient Maya Commoners
SN  - 9780292797239
U1  - 972.81/01 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Land settlement patterns
KW  - Central America
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social structure
KW  - History
KW  - Working class
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER 1 Examining Ancient Maya Commoners Anew --; CHAPTER 2 Daily Life in a Highland Maya Community: Zinacantan in Mid-Twentieth Century --; CHAPTER 3 The Role of Pottery and Food Consumption among Late Preclassic Maya Commoners at Lamanai, Belize --; CHAPTER 4 Of Salt and Water: Ancient Commoners on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala --; CHAPTER 5 Down on the Farm: Classic Maya ‘‘Homesteads’’ as ‘‘Farmsteads’’ --; CHAPTER 6 Intra-Site Settlement Signatures and Implications for Late Classic Maya Commoner Organization at Dos Hombres, Belize --; CHAPTER 7 Heterogeneous Hinterlands: The Social and Political Organization of Commoner Settlements near Xunantunich, Belize --; CHAPTER 8 The Spatial Mobility of Non-Elite Populations in Classic Maya Society and Its Political Implications --; CHAPTER 9 Commoners in Postclassic Maya Society: Social versus Economic Class Constructs --; CHAPTER 10 Methods for Understanding Classic Maya Commoners: Structure Function, Energetics, and More --; CHAPTER 11 Maya Commoners: The Stereotype and the Reality --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and status. But what do we know of the common folk who labored to build the temple complexes and palaces and grew the food that fed all of Maya society? This 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. Senior and emerging scholars contribute case studies that examine such aspects of commoner life as settlement patterns, household organization, and subsistence practices. Their reports cover most of the Maya area and the entire time span from Preclassic to Postclassic. This broad range of data helps resolve Maya commoners from a faceless mass into individual actors who successfully adapted to their social environment and who also held primary responsibility for producing the food and many other goods on which the whole Maya society depended
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/705715
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292797239
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292797239/original
ER  -