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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen Perlstein Pollard |
ISBN: | 9780806124971 0806124970 |
OCLC Number: | 26801144 |
Description: | xx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Shirley Gorenstein -- 1. Protohistoric Mesoamerica and the Tarascans. The Tarascan Heritage. Studying the Protohistoric State. The Lands of the Lord of Tzintzuntzan -- 2. The Tarascan Capital: Tzintzuntzan. The Tarascan Capital as an Urban Center. Tarascan Society in the Capital. The Imperial Capital -- 3. The Political Core: Lake Patzcuaro Basin. Human Ecology of the Basin. Protohistoric Settlement of the Basin. Economic Networks Within the Basin. Administrative Networks Within the Basin. Transport Networks Within the Basin. The Protohistoric Settlement Structure -- 4. The Expansion of the Tributary State. The Legendary and Historic Expansion of the Kingdom. The Multiethnic State. Tarascan Warfare -- 5. Economic Integration Within the Tarascan Frontier. The Role of Economic Exchange. The Nature of Exchange Within the Sate. Production of Goods and Services -- 6. Administration of the State. The Structure of Authority. Territorial Divisions Within the State. Political Power, Class, and Ethnicity -- 7. The Ideology of Power: The State Religion and the Tarascan Intellectual Tradition. State Cults and Deities. Tarascan World View, Cosmology, and Ritual. Practitioners. The Calendar. Sacred Places. Illness, Treatment, and the Social Good. The Material Expression of Belief: Tarascan Art -- 8. The Tarascan Kingdom Within Mesoamerican Prehistory. The Shadow of the Aztec Empire: Tarascan-Aztec Relations. The Emergence of a West Mexican Civilization. The Tarascan Kingdom as an Archaic State -- Appendix 1. Tzintzuntzan: Archaeological Survey -- Appendix 2. Tzintzuntzan: The Ceramic Artifacts -- Appendix 3. Tzintzuntzan: The Lithic Artifacts. |
Series Title: | Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 209. |
Responsibility: | by Helen Perlstein Pollard ; introduction by Shirley Gorenstein. |
Abstract:
Helen Perlstein Pollard draws upon ethnohistoric documentation, ecological data and archaeological research, including her own recent work in the region, to provide an overview of the Tarascan state, one of the two great political powers the Spanish encountered in Mexico in the early 16th century.
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