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Political strategies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron.

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ISBN 978-1-60732-415-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-60732-416-4 (ebook)

1. Indians of Mexico—Antiquities. 2. Indians of Central America—Antiquities. 3. Indians of Mexico—Politics and government. 4. Indians of Central America—Politics and government. 5. Authority—Political aspects—Mexico—History—To 1500. 6. Authority—Political aspects—Central America—History—To 1500. 7. Social archaeology—Mexico. 8. Social archaeology—Central America. 9. Ethnoarchaeology—Mexico. 10. Ethnoarchaeology—Central America. I. Kurnick, Sarah. II. Baron, Joanne.

F1219.3.P7P66 2015

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Cover illustrations: detail from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall © the Trustees of the British Museum (foreground ); detail of the Lienzo de Ocotepec, courtesy, Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology (background ).