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Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos
Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico
"A great read! Joyce focuses a fine critical eye on understanding changing relationships among Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino peoples across centuries of profound transformation." "In this masterful synthesis of Oaxaca archaeology, Arthur Joyce covers the entire prehispanic sequence from the Archaic through the Postclassic, weaving together traditional knowledge with data from the most recent discoveries in the three best-documented regions of Oaxaca—the Valley of Oaxaca, the Mixteca, and the Coast." "Excellent textbook to highlight major differences in the theoretical tenets of processual and post-processual archaeologies while giving voice to the cultural legacy of Zapotec, Chatino and Mixtec speaking peoples."
—Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside
—Marcus Winter, Centro INAH Oaxaca
—Javier Urcid, Brandeis University
Arthur A. Joyce (Author)
9780631209782, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 20 November 2009
368 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.535 kg
"It is recommended reading for any serious student of Mesoamerican prehistory, and will likely shape the theoretical orientation of much Oaxacan archaeology to come." (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, 2011)
Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the origins, history, and interrelationships of the civilizations that arose and flourished in Oaxaca.
List of Figures ix Preface xiii 1 People, Culture, and History 1 Sources of Evidence 5 Theorizing Oaxaca's Ancient Past 17 2 Peoples and Landscapes on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest 35 The Physical Geography of Oaxaca 36 Mixtec and Zapotec Peoples at the Time of the Spanish Conquest 42 3 From Foragers to Village Life 64 First Peoples 65 The Archaic Period and the Origins of Agriculture 66 The Transition to Sedentism 70 Negotiating Initial Village Life 73 4 Negotiating Community and Complexity 84 Constructing Community and Identity in the Early Formative 85 Community and Identity in the Early Middle Formative 104 Structures of Authority in the Early to Middle Formative 110 5 From Village to City: The Founding and Early Development of Monte Albán 118 The Late Middle Formative Political Crisis 120 The Founding of Monte Albán 128 Political Consolidation and Upheaval at Monte Albán 155 6 Political Centralization in the Mixteca and Coast 160 Social Transformations in the Mixtec Highlands 160 Interregional Interaction and the Rise of Mixtec Centers 173 Political Authority and Ideology 177 Urbanization in the Lower Río Verde Valley 180 Political Collapse in the Mixteca and the Oaxaca Coast 195 7 Authority and Polity in the Classic Period 197 Classic-Period Society in the Valley of Oaxaca 199 Classic-Period Polities of the Mixtec Highlands 226 Political Fragmentation and Centralization on the Oaxaca Coast 239 8 Collapse and Reemergence 248 The Collapse in the Oaxacan Highlands 249 The Classic-Period Collapse and the Early Postclassic on the Oaxaca Coast 252 Postclassic Heroic History 258 Lord 8 Deer “Jaguar Claw” and the Archaeology of Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) 266 Late Postclassic Archaeology of the Oaxacan Highlands 270 The Spanish Conquest 280 9 Conclusions 283 Beyond Functionalism and Neo-Evolutionism in Oaxaca 284 Poststructural Theory and the Archaeology of the Mixtec, Zapotec, and Chatino 287 Endnotes 296 Bibliography 299 Index 336
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
