Land Tenure and Politics in the Late/Terminal Classic Rosario Valley, Chiapas, Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID3035540
AuthorsOlivier De Montmollin (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume45
Issue3
Pages293-314
Publication date1989-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/jar.45.3.3630282
OpenAlexW2334297404
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Archaeological settlement evidence from the Late/Terminal Classic (A.D. 700-950) Rosario Valley is analyzed for what it reveals about land tenure and its relation to politics. Concerning the degrees of private versus communal versus "state" control over land, the distribution of settlement over different land types indicates that control over land was localized more at the community than at the individual household level. State control over land is indicated by the political capital's distorting effect on the distribution of settlement in relation to arable land within its vicinity. Finally, the distributions of residential groupings do not suggest a dispersed estate (or "feudal") type of settlement pattern for elite residents, since most of these resided in relatively large and hierarchically superior sites

Agriculture · Arable land · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Economy · Elite · Feudalism · Geography · Human settlement · Land tenure · Land use · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Settlement (finance) · State (computer science) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Latin American history and culture · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics

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