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More About This Title Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos - Ancient Peoplesof Southern Mexico
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- Provides an up-to-date summary of the current state of research findings and archaeological evidence
- Uses contemporary social theory to address many key problems relating to archaeology of the Americas, including the dynamics of social life and the rise and fall of civilizations
- Adds clarity to ongoing debates over cultural change and interregional interactions in ancient Mesoamerican societies
- Supplemented with compelling illustrations, photographs, and line drawings of various archaeological sites and artifacts
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Preface xiii
1 People, Culture, and History 1
Sources of Evidence 5
Theorizing Oaxaca's Ancient Past 17
2 Peoples and Landscapes on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest 35
The Physical Geography of Oaxaca 36
Mixtec and Zapotec Peoples at the Time of the Spanish Conquest 42
3 From Foragers to Village Life 64
First Peoples 65
The Archaic Period and the Origins of Agriculture 66
The Transition to Sedentism 70
Negotiating Initial Village Life 73
4 Negotiating Community and Complexity 84
Constructing Community and Identity in the Early Formative 85
Community and Identity in the Early Middle Formative 104
Structures of Authority in the Early to Middle Formative 110
5 From Village to City: The Founding and Early Development of Monte Albán 118
The Late Middle Formative Political Crisis 120
The Founding of Monte Albán 128
Political Consolidation and Upheaval at Monte Albán 155
6 Political Centralization in the Mixteca and Coast 160
Social Transformations in the Mixtec Highlands 160
Interregional Interaction and the Rise of Mixtec Centers 173
Political Authority and Ideology 177
Urbanization in the Lower Río Verde Valley 180
Political Collapse in the Mixteca and the Oaxaca Coast 195
7 Authority and Polity in the Classic Period 197
Classic-Period Society in the Valley of Oaxaca 199
Classic-Period Polities of the Mixtec Highlands 226
Political Fragmentation and Centralization on the Oaxaca Coast 239
8 Collapse and Reemergence 248
The Collapse in the Oaxacan Highlands 249
The Classic-Period Collapse and the Early Postclassic on the Oaxaca Coast 252
Postclassic Heroic History 258
Lord 8 Deer “Jaguar Claw” and the Archaeology of Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) 266
Late Postclassic Archaeology of the Oaxacan Highlands 270
The Spanish Conquest 280
9 Conclusions 283
Beyond Functionalism and Neo-Evolutionism in Oaxaca 284
Poststructural Theory and the Archaeology of the Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino 287
Endnotes 296
Bibliography 299
Index 336
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"A great read! Joyce focuses a fine critical eye on understanding changing relationships among Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino peoples across centuries of profound transformation."
—Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside
"In this masterful synthesis of Oaxaca archaeology, Arthur Joyce covers the entire prehispanic sequence from the Archaic through the Postclassic, weaving together traditional knowledge with data from the most recent discoveries in the three best-documented regions of Oaxaca—the Valley of Oaxaca, the Mixteca, and the Coast."
—Marcus Winter, Centro INAH Oaxaca
"Excellent textbook to highlight major differences in the theoretical tenets of processual and post-processual archaeologies while giving voice to the cultural legacy of Zapotec, Chatino and Mixtec speaking peoples."
—Javier Urcid, Brandeis University
