Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Part I. Introduction: 1. Factional competition and political development in the New World: an introduction Elizabeth M. Brumfiel Part II. Chiefdoms: 2. The power of prestige: competitive generosity and the emergence of rank societies in lowland Mesoamerica John E. Clark and Michael Blake 3. Factional ascendance, dimensions of leadership, and the development of centralized authority Charles S. Spencer 4. External warfare and the internal politics of northern South American tribes and chiefdoms Elsa M. Redmond 5. Chiefdom rivalries, control, and external contacts in lower Central America Mary W. Helms 6. Factional competition and the political evolution of Mississippian chiefdoms in the southeastern United States David G. Anderson Part III. States: 7. Ethnicity and political control in a complex society: the Tarascan state of prehispanic Mexico Helen Perlstein Pollard 8. Ethnic groups and factions in Aztec Mexico Elizabeth M. Brumfiel 9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family Rudolf Van Zantwijk 10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion Frederic Hicks 11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta Bruce E. Byland, and John M. D. Pohl 12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic valley of Oaxaca Stephen A. Kowalewski 13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya lowlands Mary E. D. Pohl and John M. D. Pohl 14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya John W. Fox 15. Factionalism and political development in the central Andes Terence N. D'Altroy Part IV. Discussion 16. Factional competition and historical materialism Glenn Perusek 17 Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation and factionalism in New World political areas John W. Fox.
Institution: University of Calgary
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2136566272