Contents
Chapter 1 Paradoxical Politics: Negotiating the Contradictions of Political Authority
Chapter 3 Negotiating Political Authority and Community in Terminal Formative Coastal Oaxaca
Arthur A. Joyce, Sarah B. Barber, Jeffrey Brzezinski, Carlo J. Lucido, and Víctor Salazar Chávez
Chapter 4 Conflicting Political Strategies in Late Formative to Early Classic Central Jalisco
Chapter 5 Patron Deities and Politics among the Classic Maya
Chapter 7 Landscapes, Lordships, and Sovereignty in Mesoamerica
Bryce Davenport and Charles Golden
Chapter 8 Ruling “Purépecha Chichimeca” in a Tarascan World
Chapter 9 Reflections on the Archaeopolitical: Pursuing the Universal within a Unity of Opposites