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  • Mesoamerican Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Julia A. Hendon, Lisa Overholtzer, Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    A unique and wide-ranging introduction to the major prehispanic and colonial societies of Mexico and Central America, featuring new and revised material throughoutMesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Handbook of Gender in Archaeology

    by Benjamin Alberti, Bettina Arnold, Wendy Ashmore, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Diane Bolger, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bonnie J. Clark, Pam Crabtree, Virginia Ebert, Julia A. Hendon, Sandra E. Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, RosemaryA Joyce, Janet E. Levy, Diane Lyons, Emer O'Donnell, Thomas C. Patterson, Jane D. Peterson, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Barbara L. Voss, Kathryn Weedman, Ruth Whitehouse, Laurie A. Wilkie ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of ... Read more

    $213.99 USD

  • Material Relations

    The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras

    by Julia A. Hendon, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jeanne Lopiparo ...
    Focusing on marriage figurines—double human figurines that represent relations formed through social alliances—Hendon, Joyce, and Lopiparo examine the material relations created in Honduras between AD 500 and 1000, a period of time when a network of social houses linked settlements of a variety of sizes in the region. The authors analyze these small, seemingly insignificant artifacts using the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology

    Edited by Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Julia A. Hendon ...
    Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding of agency and personhood, presenting a globally diverse set of case studies that cover a range ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Women in Antiquity

    Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology

    by Sarah Milledge Nelson, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Marie Louise Stig Sorenson, Bettina Arnold, Julia A. Hendon, Wendy Ashmore, Janet E. Levy, Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Kathryn Weedman ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

    by Francisco Estrada-Belli ...
    When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ancient People of the Andes

    by Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by Susan Toby Evans, David Webster ...
    This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    by Matthew G. Looper ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

    by Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ancient Maya Women

    Edited by Traci Ardren ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies-archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography-to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon ... Read more

    $55.99 USD