Social Identities, Power Relations, and Urban Transformations:

Murakami, Tatsuya

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“…The city of Teotihuacan consists of grand-scale monumental structures and other buildings along the Street of the Dead (hereafter the central precinct) and the surrounding residential area (figure 6.1). Similarities can be observed in the canonical orientation of buildings and standardized construction materials as well as several components of architectural complexes such as rooms, temples, and courtyards (Murakami 2013(Murakami , 2014. Differences are noted in varying scales and the degree of embellishment of these buildings.…”

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Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

Tavárez

2018

Hispanic American Historical Review

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5.3. The family tree of La Corona's main royal lineage and other La Corona rulers 5.4. South profile of Structure 13R-2 showing principal phases of construction 6.1. Location of architectural complexes mentioned in the text 155 6.2. Diachronic changes in total labor costs for the central precinct 6.3. Feathered Serpent Pyramid at the Ciudadela 6.4. Diachronic changes in labor costs for major pyramids and administrative/residential structures within the central precinct 6.5. Human representations during the Xolalpan-Metepec phases 6.6. Layout of some apartment compounds 6.7. Plan of the Street of the Dead Complex 7.1. Map of the Maya area 7.2. Detail map of Oaxaca showing selected sites in the Mixteca Alta 185 FIGURES xi 7.3. Map of the region between Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and Yaxchilan, Mexico, showing border sites and fortifications along the northern border of the Yaxchilan kingdom 195 7.4. Detail from page 22 of the Codex Zouche-Nuttall showing the toponyms of subsidiary and border settlements inside of the glyph for the ñuu 199 7.5. Detail of the Lienzo de Ocotepec, an early Colonial document showing the boundaries between Santo Tomas Ocotepec and Santa Maria Cuquila 200 8.1. Extent of the Tarascan empire and major lake basins referred to in text 219 8.2. Major Late Postclassic urban sites in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin 225 8.3. Local elite identity in burial 9 at Urichu. Spouted polychrome vessel and several bronze and shell earrings 227 8.4. Ritual center of Ihuatzio 228 This volume originated in a session we organized at the 77th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2012. Our goal was to bring together archaeologists working throughout Mesoamerica to discuss and debate the processes associated with the creation, perpetuation, and negation of politically authoritative relationships. We would like to thank the authors for their thoughtful chapters, as well as those who presented a paper at the SAAs but were unable to contribute to the volume:

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Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

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2018

Hispanic American Historical Review

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“…Collective demand for lime plaster and some changes in the relationship between ruling elites, bureaucracy, and major social groups resulted in its wide distribution. Lime plaster became a public good and a common technological practice that embodied cooperative relations between the state and the subjects, a community of practice (Wenger, 1998), and perhaps a corporate ideology (see also Murakami, 2014Murakami, , 2016. This relatively equal social relations, however, were rested on highly asymmetric power relations between Teotihuacan and lime source areas.…”

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“…I emphasized that equality embodied by the use of lime plaster represents only one dimension of power relations, and it is critical to juxtapose the analysis of several different classes of artifacts to fully understand the materiality of power and identity. Along with lime plaster, construction of apartment compounds itself, their canonical orientation, and talud-tablero style temples among others may have enhanced a shared identity in the city (Murakami, 2014(Murakami, , 2016. I have elsewhere discussed varying patterns of production, distribution/exchange, and consumption among different classes of artifacts (Murakami, n.d.), which suggests that greenstone objects, architectural cut stone blocks, and some types of slate objects were restricted to varying degrees to intermediate and/or ruling elites throughout Teotihuacan history.…”

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“…et al, 1995; see also Sewell, 1992:19). For example, public spectacles in complex societies may entail some transcendent power of ruling elites at the same time as they enhance shared identity through bodily experience of unity and sameness (Inomata, 2006;Murakami, 2014). Furthermore, the analytical separation of despotic and infrastructural power also entails multiple dimensions of power, the latter being defined as the state's ability to penetrate into civil life through its own infrastructure (Mann, 1984).…”

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“…Current evidence suggests that this highly centralized rulership underwent some major changes during the Early Xolalpan phase (350-450 AD) or perhaps earlier as seen in the termination program of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid (Millon, 1993;Sugiyama, 1998). It is possible that this change is associated with the development of bureaucracy (Murakami, 2010(Murakami, , 2014(Murakami, , 2016.…”

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