Motul de San Jose: Politics, History, and Economy in a Maya Polity (Maya Studies) - Tapa blanda

"A robust presentation....Motul de San Jose joins a group of edited volumes published in recent years that offer state-of-the-art synthetic overviews of the archeology of a site or region in the Maya area...among these volumes Motul de San Jose is remarkable in the range of data presented and the syntheses attempted."--Journal of Anthropological Research "Superb. . . . Address[es] all aspects of the complex web of interaction and integration that was the Late Classic polity of Motul de San Jose, including political history, craft production, and animal and agricultural economies. . . .An invaluable work that paints a picture, replete with the richness and variety present in Late Classic Maya society."--Current Anthropology "Features synthetic but also data-rich chapters from a wide variety of specialists."--Antiquity "Superb. . . . Address[es] all aspects of the complex web of interaction and integration that was the Late Classic polity of Motul de San JosE, including political history, craft production, and animal and agricultural economies. . . .An invaluable work that paints a picture, replete with the richness and variety present in Late Classic Maya society."--"Current Anthropology" "A robust presentation...."Motul de San JosE" joins a group of edited volumes published in recent years that offer state-of-the-art synthetic overviews of the archeology of a site or region in the Maya area...among these volumes "Motul de San JosE" is remarkable in the range of data presented and the syntheses attempted."--"Journal of Anthropological Research" "Features synthetic but also data-rich chapters from a wide variety of specialists."--"Antiquity" "Superb. . . . an invaluable work...replete with the richness and variety present in Late Classic Maya society."--"Current Anthropology" "A robust presentation...."Motul de San Jose" joins a group of edited volumes published in recent years that offer state-of-the-art synthetic overviews of the archeology of a site or region in the Maya area...among these volumes "Motul de San Jose" is remarkable in the range of data presented and the syntheses attempted."--"Journal of Anthropological Research"

Scholars have long debated the nature of Maya political organization during the Classic period (AD 250-950). Complex questions regarding political centralization, economic change, and the role of politics and economics in the rise and collapse of the civilization have been examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Antonia Foias and Kitty Emery have assembled a broad collection of essays all focused on a single polity, that of Motul de San Jose.