- Title Information
- Title
- Kingship and Collapse: Inequality and Identity in the Terminal Classic Southern Maya Lowlands
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Personal
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- Carter, Nicholas Poole
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Text
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- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
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- 23, 716 p.
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- born digital
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2014)
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Personal
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- Houston, Stephen
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Text
- Director
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Personal
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- Scherer, Andrew
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Golden, Charles
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Garrison, Thomas
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Corporate
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- Brown University. Anthropology
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- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- In polities headed by divine kings, the public performance of hierarchy and inequality is essential to political power. Yet what happens to that inequality when political institutions break down? This dissertation investigates how hierarchy was constituted and contested during one such period: the Terminal Classic phase (ca. A.D. 800 - 1000) of southern lowland Maya civilization, when populations declined and existing dynastic kingdoms dissolved. The dissertation explores Terminal Classic hieroglyphic and visual representations of sociopolitical hierarchy and investigates archaeological data from the site of El Zotz, Guatemala, and elsewhere in search of evidence for the persistence and nature of social inequality during the Maya collapse.
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- collapse
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- inequality
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- elite
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- king
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- kingship
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- Terminal Classic
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- state
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- hierarchy
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- El Zotz
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- epigraphy
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- Mayas
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- Hieroglyphics
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- Equality
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- Elite (Social sciences)
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1025892")
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- Monuments
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- Archaeology
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- Inscriptions
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- Geographic
- Guatemala
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- RPB
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- 20141006
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0PG1Q3H
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- dissertations