Networks of Power Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley【電子書籍】[ Edward Schortman ]

＜p＞Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. ＜em＞Networks of Power＜/em＞ 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞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 networks 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 ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る