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- ISBN 9781607328865
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- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2019
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Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns. Contributors to the volume explore the varied stories of past Maya conflicts through artifacts, architecture, texts, and images left to posterity.
Many studies have focused on the degree to which the prevalence, nature, and conduct of conflict has varied across time and space. This volume focuses not only on such operational considerations but on cognitive and experiential issues, analyzing how the Maya understood and explained conflict, what they recognized as conflict, how conflict was experienced by various groups, and the circumstances surrounding conflict. By offering an emic (internal and subjective) understanding alongside the more commonly researched etic (external and objective) perspective, contributors clarify insufficiencies and address lapses in data and analysis. They explore how the Maya defined themselves within the realm of warfare and examine the root causes and effects of intergroup conflict.
Using case studies from a wide range of time periods, Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica provides a basis for understanding hostilities and broadens the archaeological record for the “seeking” of conflict in a way that has been largely untouched by previous scholars. With broad theoretical reach beyond Mesoamerican archaeology, the book will have wide interdisciplinary appeal and will be important to ethnohistorians, art historians, ethnographers, epigraphers, and those interested in human conflict more broadly.
Contributors:
Matthew Abtosway, Karen Bassie-Sweet, George J. Bey III, M. Kathryn Brown, Allen J. Christenson, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, Elizabeth Graham, Helen R. Haines, Christopher L. Hernandez, Harri Kettunen, Rex Koontz, Geoffrey McCafferty, Jesper Nielsen, Joel W. Palka, Kerry L. Sagebiel, Travis W. Stanton, Alexandre Tokovinine
Shawn G. Morton is an instructor of anthropology at Grande Prairie Regional College. He also holds research affiliations with the University of Calgary, Michigan State University, and Northern Arizona University. He is the associate investigator of the Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP, www.scraparchaeology.com) and has worked at several sites in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Canada.
Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown is associate professor of archaeology at Athabasca University and adjunct professor at the University of Calgary. She is the principal investigator of the Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP, www.scraparchaeology.com) and has worked at several sites in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
