Political Transformations and the Everyday in Postclassic Oaxaca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6034243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur A Joyce (0000-0002-6769-3900, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Marc N Levine (0000-0001-8145-6402, American Museum of Natural History), Stacie M King (0000-0001-7081-0779, Indiana University Bloomington), Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin (University of Colorado Boulder), Sarah B Barber (University of Central Florida) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 389-410 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ancient Mesoamerica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-5361 • E-ISSN: 1469-1787 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s095653611400025x |
| OpenAlex | W2113951675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 80 |
We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic period political institutions, commoners experienced greater economic and political autonomy. Residential excavations at Río Viejo indicate that commoners took advantage of the absence of regional authority to gain greater control over surplus craft products, especially cotton thread, as well as access to social valuables and long distance trade. By the Late Postclassic period, the region was once again dominated by powerful rulers. Yet household excavations at Tututepec show that Late Postclassic commoners continued to control some surplus craft production and had access to social valuables like copper and polychrome pottery via market exchange. We argue that Late Postclassic political relations were a product of negotiations among elites and commoners that in part reflect the greater economic autonomy and political power that Early Postclassic people had acquired
Archaeology · Autonomy · Craft · Economics · Economy · Elite · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Pottery · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
Polychrome Pottery Economics and Ritual Life in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Captivation, Coproduction, and Technologies of Compromise at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico
Economic growth in Mesoamerica
Rural responses following collapse
Ceramic production and consumption in an in-between place
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México
Volcanic Glass and Iron Nails
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
The Power of Monuments in Ruin in Ancient Oaxaca
People of Clay and Stone
The show must go on
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Social Change and Household Geography in Mumun Period South Korea
Economies and polities in the Aztec realm
Engendering archaeology
Ancient civilization and trade
Aztecs
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
The cultural biography of things
Making Gender
Women in prehistory
A Theory of the Origin of the State
The Social Life of Things
Olmec to Aztec
Caciques and Their People
Making Histories and Constructing Human Geographies
Introduction
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Making Histories and Constructing Human Geographies
Pre-Hispanic Interregional Interaction in Southern Mexico
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Reading the Past
Bodies that Matter
Elite Strategies and the Spread of Technological Innovation
Of Rule and Revenue
Soundscapes of the Everyday in Ancient Oaxaca, Mexico
Commoner Power
Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies
PostScript
Multiproxy paleoecological reconstruction of prehistoric land-use history in the western region of the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico
Climate and Collapse
Origins of the Ñuu
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Religion and Empire
Cotton in Aztec Mexico
Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca
The Return of Quetzalcoatl
T. Patrick Culbert, 1930–2013
Production Intensification and Regional Specialization
Thread Production in Early Postclassic Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
Shifting Patterns of Obsidian Exchange in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Carved Monuments and Calendrical Names
The Ceramics and Chronology of Cholula, Mexico
Tututepec
Interregional Interaction and Social Development on the Oaxaca Coast
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Process and Agency in Early State Formation
Local versus non-local obsidian exchange at Tula and its implications for post-formative Mesoamerica
Houses on a Hill
A Prehispanic (Postclassic) Capital Center in Colonial Transition
Modifications of Ancient Maya Sculpture
Egalitarian Ideology and Political Power in Prehispanic Central Mexico
Lord 8 Deer "Jaguar Claw" and the Land of the Sky
Formative Period Social Change in the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico
State Collapse and Household Resilience in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico
States and Households
Exchange Implications of Obsidian Source Analysis from the Lower Rio Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico
People with Cloth
Fragmentos desconocidos del Códice de Yanhuitlan y otras investigaciones mixtecas
Cacicazgos y nobiliario indígena de la Nueva España
The Politics of Symbolism in the Mixtec Codices
Central Problems in Social Theory
Bodies That Matter
Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük
Indian Clothing before Cortes
Ritual
The Social Construction of Ancient Cities
Marital Alliance in the Political Integration of Mixtec Kingdoms
Outside of houses
Practice and history in archaeology
The Predatory Theory of Rule
Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa), Oaxaca, Mexico
Gender, Farming, and Long-Term Change
A Theory of Structure
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |