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245	0	0	_aFaces of rulership in the Maya region
260			_aWashington: _bDumbarton Oaks, _c2024
300			_a423 p. : _bill., tab., graph.
520			_aAuthority―whether royal, divine, material, fleeting, or enduring―varied across space and time in the Maya region, from its Preclassic dynastic origins through the colonial encounters of the sixteenth century. The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in the fifteen chapters of Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region. The contributors track rulership―beyond the prevalent paradigm of divine kingship―by considering the power of queens and unravelling codes embedded in art and public buildings. Through the close study of the agency of rulers who often sought to distinguish themselves from other dynasts, the contributors come to an enhanced understanding of the relational dynamics between rulers and subject peoples. The book reveals that rulership was perpetually challenged in ways that impacted adjacent institutions of nobles and literati. Applying concepts of rulership outlined in On Kings by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins, this volume brings Maya history and archaeology into the current, anthropological conversation about rulership in premodern times.
700	1		_aAnany, Patricia A. Mc; _eéd. _96559
700	1		_aMasson, Marilyn A. _eéd. _96560
710	2		_aDumbarton Oaks _eéd. _94249
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