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Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America.

Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a Great Tradition focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.

Sarah B. Barber is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Arthur A. Joyce is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas

Edited by Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Edited by Christina Halperin and Lauren Schwartz

Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas

Edited by Lucas C. Kellett and Eric Jones

Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas

Edited by Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce

Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas

Edited by Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce

First published 2018

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Contents

Arthur A. Joyce

Erina Gruner

Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat

Christopher B. Rodning

Sarah B. Barber

David M. Carballo

Rosemary A. Joyce

Scott R. Hutson, Cline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona

Matthew Piscitelli

Edward Swenson

John H. Walker

Jerry D. Moore

Mara Nieves Zedeo

1. i
2. ii

Susan M. Alt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Her interests include Mississippian religion, migrations, violence, gender, and the built environment, and her current research deals with the relationships between the Emerald complex, Cahokia, and the Yankeetown culture of southwestern Indiana.

Sarah B. Barber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA. Her research interests include religion, early urbanism, ancient music, long-distance exchange, and coastal ecosystems in Mesoamerica.

David M. Carballo is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Boston University, USA. His research interests include urbanism, religion, political organization, households, and collective action in precolumbian central Mexico.

Erina Gruner is in the PhD program at the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, and works as an Archaeological Field Director for WestLand Resources, Inc. Her research addresses prehistoric interaction, exchange, and social organization in the southwestern United States, with a focus on ethnohistoric perspectives.

Scott R. Hutson directs the Uc-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project in Yucatan, Mexico, and teaches anthropology at the University of Kentucky. His recent books include Ancient Urban Maya (University Press of Florida) and Ancient Maya Commerce (University Press of Colorado).

Arthur A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research interests include the archaeology of political life, urbanism, materiality, and ecology in ancient Mesoamerica.

Rosemary A. Joyce is the Alice S. Davis Endowed Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her research centers on how the things people make shape the people who make them, recreating social relations and making them seem to be natural by associating them with the material world.

Cline C. Lamb is a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky, USA, completing her dissertation on rural complexity in northern Yucatan. She has also worked in Belize, El Salvador, and the eastern United States, and received her masters degree from the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne.

David Medina Arona is an archaeologist with the Centro-INAH Campeche, in Mexico. His research interests focus on the social organization of precolumbian and modern Maya groups. He also has expertise in the study of lithic artifacts and precolumbian architecture.

Jerry D. Moore, Professor of Anthropology, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA, is an Andean archaeologist whose research focuses on prehispanic cultural landscapes and the built environment.

Timothy R. Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, USA. His interests focus on the broad relationships between ancient cosmologies, cities, and the everyday experiences of agricultural peoples along the Mississippi river south into Mexico.

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