Maya Postclassic State Formation: Segmentary Lineage Migration in Advancing Frontiers

by John W. Fox

Book Overview

John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the later Maya state. Drawing this data from ethnographic analogy and native chronicles as well as archaeology, he identifies segmentary lineage organisation as the key to understanding both the political organisation and the long-distance migrations observed among the Quiche Maya of Guatemala and Mexico. The first part of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521101956
• ISBN13: 9780521101950
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"