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Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos

Rice, Prudence M.

Paperback

Series: Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies

Central American HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0292705697
ISBN13: 9780292705692
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Nov 1 2004
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status-with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant superpowers nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of material and cultural evidence.

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