Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective (Paperback)

1. The materiality of practice in ancestral Maya economies; 2. Situating Maya societies in space and time; 3. Feeding a hungry landscape; 4. Gendered labor and socially constructed space; 5. Ritual works: monumental architecture and generative schemes of power; 6. Naturalized authority of the royal court; 7. Social identity and daily practice of artisan production; 8. Places, practices, and people of commerce; 9. Flowery speech of Maya tributary arrangements; 10. Skeining the threads.