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Postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan -- Conceptualizing macroregional interaction: world-systems theory and the archaeological record / Susan Kepecs and Philip Kohl -- Spatial structure of the Mesoamerican world system / Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan -- Small polities in postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith -- Political organization in Yucatan and Belize / Susan Kepecs and Marilyn A. Masson -- Highland Maya polities / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- The polities of Xoconochco / Janine Gasco -- West Mexico beyond the Tarascan frontier / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- Aztec city-states in the basin of Mexico and Morelos / Michael E. Smith. |
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Creation stories, hero cults, and alliance building: confederacies of Central and Southern Mexico / John M.D. Pohl -- The Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith -- Borders in the Eastern Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan -- The Tarascan empire / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- The Aztec/Taraxcan border / Helen Perlstein Pollard and Michael E. Smith -- The economy of postclassic Mesoamerica / Frances F. Berdan -- An international economy / Frances F. Berdan, Marilyn A. Masson, Janine Gasco, and Michael E. Smith -- International trade centers / Janine Gasco and Frances F. Berdan -- Key commodities / Michael E. Smith -- Salt sources and production / Susan Kepecs. |
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Obsidian exchange spheres / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- Metal production / Dorothy Hosler -- Ritual ideology and commerce in the Southern Mexican Highlands / John M.D. Pohl -- Information networks in postclassic Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith -- Postclassic international styles and symbol sets / Elizabeth H. Boone and Michael E. Smith -- The late postclassic symbol set in the Maya area / Marilyn A. Masson -- Ritual and iconographic variability in Mixteca-Puebla polychrome pottery / John M.D. Pohl -- A web of understanding: pictorial codices and the shared intellectual culture of late postclassic Mesoamerica / Elizabeth H. Boone -- Themes in world-system regions / Frances F. Berdan -- Development of a Tarascan core: the Lake Patzcuaro basin / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- The evolution of a core zone: the basin of Mexico / Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith -- Royal marriage and confederacy building among the Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs / John M.D. Pohl. |
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Economic change in Morelos households / Michael E. Smith -- Chikinchel / Susan M. Kepecs -- Economic patterns in Northern Belize / Marilyn A. Masson -- Soconusco / Janine Gasco -- K'iche'an origins, symbolic emulation, and ethnogenesis in the Maya Highlands, A.D. 1450-1524 / Geoffrey E. Braswell -- Different hemispheres, different worlds / Philip L. Kohl and Evgenij N. Chernykh -- A perspective on late postclassic Mesoamerica / Frances F. Berdan, Susan Kepecs, and Michael E. Smith. |
| Local note | Little-339977--305131047160V |
| General note | Based on a conference held April 1999 at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-371) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002013834 |
| ISBN | 0874807344 (alk. paper) |
