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Books by Patricia Mcanany
  | | Living with the Ancestors(2nd Edition) Kinship And Kingship In Ancient Maya Society by Patricia A. Mcanany Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-71935-3, ISBN: 0-521-71935-6 "This new edition of Living with the Ancestors contains an entirely new introduction that synthesizes scholarship on ancestralizing practices that has emerged since the 1995 publication of the first edition, which was heralded in Ethnohistory as "a gem" by Robert M. Carmack. Ancestor veneration in the Maya region traditionally was associated with divine kingship and royal genealogies. In this study, the author challenges this assumption ..." |
 | | Textile Economies(1st Edition) Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series) by Walter E. Little, Patricia A. Mcanany, Patricia Ann Mcanany, Mcanany/Little, Lucy Norris Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2011 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-2061-7, ISBN: 0-7591-2061-7 "Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textiles are a material element of society that fosters the study of continuities and disjunctions in the economic and social realities of past and present societies. From stick-loo ..." |
 | | Ancient Maya Political Economies(Updated) (World Social Change) by Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel, Contributor-Georgia West, Contributor-Elizabeth Graham, Contributor-Steven Morandi, David Friedel, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Dr William L. Rathje, Patricia A. Mcanany, Ben S. Thomas, Polly A. Peterson, And Eleanor Harrison, Lauren A. Sullivan, Geoffrey E. Braswell, Craig A. Hanson, Antonia E. Foias, Contributor-Kathryn Reese..., Masson/Freidel, Altamira Press Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0081-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0081-0 "Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Chapters in this book take a hard look at existing models of elite exchange and tribute and address the difficult question of how the flow of utilitarian goods supported Maya kingdoms and their ruling classes. Using models originally developed by William L. Ra ..." |
 | | K'axob Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village (Monumenta Archaeologica) by Patricia A. Mcanany, David Ann Taniar Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2004 by The Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931745-09-3, ISBN: 1-931745-09-9 "Shortly after 800 B.C., a village was founded in the wetland and riverine habitat of northern Belize. Now called K'axob, this Maya community grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of Formative life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of superimposed domiciles. These houses, their domestic and mortuary features, and associated artifacts reveal a co ..." |
 | | Living With the Ancestors(1st Edition) Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society by Patricia A. Mcanany Hardcover, 213 Pages, Published 1995 by Univ Of Texas Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75165-1, ISBN: 0-292-75165-6 "Ancestor veneration in the Maya lowlands traditionally has been associated with divine kingship and royal genealogies. But in this revisionist study, Patricia McAnany challenges this view and presents a strong case for the Formative Period roots of ancestor veneration, suggesting that it is an ancient agrarian practice linked to the emergence or restrictive patterns of land tenure and unequal access to resources. Just as the deciphermen ..." |
 | | Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Joanne Pillsbury, Dmitri Beliaev, Brigitte Kovacevich, Enrique Mayer, Charles Stanish, Alexandre Tokovinine, Kenneth G. Hirth, Richard E. Blanton, Richard L. Burger, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Lawrence S. Coben, Paul S. Goldstein, David M. Carballo, Tom D. Dillehay, David A. Freidel, Barry L. Isaac, Patricia A. Mcanany, Axel E. Nielsen, John R. Topic, Marilyn A. Masson, Deborah L. Nichols, Prof Joanne Pillsbury Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2013 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-386-9, ISBN: 0-88402-386-9 ""Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World" examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization in each region was characterized by complex political and religious institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have ..." |
 | | Living with the Ancestors(2nd Edition) Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society by Patricia A. Mcanany Hardcover, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-89516-3, ISBN: 0-521-89516-2 |
 | | Ancient Maya Political Economies by Contributor-Georgia West, Contributor-Steven Morandi, Contributor-Elizabeth Graham, Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Patricia A. Mcanany, Craig A. Hanson, Geoffrey E. Braswell, Dr William L. Rathje, Ben S. Thomas, Polly A. Peterson, And Eleanor Harrison, Lauren A. Sullivan, Antonia E. Foias, David Mora-Marín, Contributor-Ben S., Masson/Freidel, Altamira Press Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 2002 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0080-0, ISBN: 0-7591-0080-2 "Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Chapters in this book take a hard look at existing models of elite exchange and tribute and address the difficult question of how the flow of utilitarian goods supported Maya kingdoms and their ruling classes. Using models originally developed by William L. Ra ..." |
 | | Maya Cultural Heritage How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past by Patricia A. Mcanany 270 Pages, Published 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4128-2, ISBN: 1-4422-4128-4 "60 A multisited cultural heritage project had the potential to map how the past is experienced today across the historically deep but fractured plane of colonialism and nation building. NOTES 1. Lippert (2005:438). 2. Lippert (2005). 3. Lippert ... Most notably, Shannon Lee Dawdy (2009), who is deeply suspicious of attempts to democratize the research process; Marina La Salle (2010), who questions whether it is really a departure f ..." |
 | | Questioning Collapse Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire by Patricia A. Mcanany, Norman Yoffee 390 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-71732-9, ISBN: 1-107-71732-9 "Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee. Incomplete Evidence,” in Living Standards in the Past. Edited by ... in The Qing Formation in World Historical Time. Edited by Lynn Struve, pp. 207 – 241. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asia Center. Rawski, Thomas. 1989. Economic Growth in Prewar China. Berkeley: University of California Press. Schoppa, R. Keith. 2002 ..." |
 | | Look Close, See Far(1st Edition) A Cultural Portrait of the Maya by Allen J. Christenson, Shoshaunna Parks, Patricia A. Mcanany, Bruce T. Martin Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2007 by George Braziller Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8076-1589-8, ISBN: 0-8076-1589-7 "Look Close, See Far uses photography and essays to create a cultural portrait of the Maya Indians.Respected scholars introduce these indigenous communities of Central America and their ancient and complex spiritual, cultural, artistic, and architectural traditions. One hundred stunning black and white photographs document the remaining fragments of this disappearing society and present a record of the world they inhabit through images o ..." |
 | | Research in Economic Anthropology A Research Annual : Prehistoric Maya Economies of Belize (Research in Economic Anthropology Supplement) by Patricia A. Mcanany, Barry L. Isaac Hardcover, 372 Pages, Published 1990 by Jai Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55938-051-5, ISBN: 1-55938-051-9 "Morris, Ann Axtell (1931) "Murals from the Temple of the Warriors and Adjacent Structures." Plates 130-170 in E. H. Morris, ... CO: Westview Press. Potter, David ( 1977) Maya Architecture of the Central Yucatan Peninsula, 342 K. ANNE PYBURN." |
 | | Property in Economic Context(Updated) (Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series) by Robert C. Hunt, Antonio Gilman, Contributor-Duran Bell, Contributor-Paula Brown, Contributor-Cathy Costin, Contributor-Andrew Fleming, Contributor-Willem Wolters, Contributor-Michael Hudson, Charles A. Bishop, Jean-Philippe Colin, Timothy K. Earle, Patricia A. Mcanany, Walter C. Neale, Pauline E. Peters, E. Paul Durrenberger, Contributor-Timothy K. Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1998 by Upa ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-1064-3, ISBN: 0-7618-1064-1 |
 | | Textile Economies Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational by Walter E. Little, Patricia A. Mcanany Ebook, 342 Pages, Published 2011 by Rowman Altamira ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-2063-1, ISBN: 0-7591-2063-3 "Florence and, thus, its privileged position in the world's textile economy. For nearly as long, Pratese also have resented their city's relative obscurity in the shadow of Florence's dazzling light and autocratic and restrictive rule and its reputation of being not much more than Florence's industrial park. To counter that identity, ... a former and remodeled textile factory. Since the Middle Ages, Prato's wealth has come mainly fr ..." |
 | | Maya Cultural Heritage How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past (Archaeology in Society) by Patricia Ann Mcanany, Sarah M. Rowe, Mcanany/Rowe Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4127-5, ISBN: 1-4422-4127-6 "Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America who became detached from "the ancient Maya" through colonialism, government actions, and early twentieth-century anthropological and archaeological research. Through grass-roots heritage programs, local communities are reconnecting with a much valorized but ..." |
 | | Dimensions of Ritual Economy (Research in Economic Anthropology) by Patricia Ann Mcanany, E. Christian Wells, John Bishop, Donald C. Wood Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2012 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78190-153-3, ISBN: 1-78190-153-8 "Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the ..." |
 | | Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective by Patricia Ann Mcanany Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-89518-7, ISBN: 0-521-89518-9 "The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles this question and presents the first comprehensive view of ancestral Maya economic practice. Bringing ..." |
 | | Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective by Patricia Ann Mcanany Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-43601-5, ISBN: 1-107-43601-X "The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles this question and presents the first comprehensive view of ancestral Maya economic practice. Bringing ..." |
 | | Questioning Collapse(1st Edition) Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire by Patricia Ann Mcanany, Norman Yoffee Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-73366-3, ISBN: 0-521-73366-9 "Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events, such as the deforestation ..." |
 | | Questioning Collapse(1st Edition) Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire by Norman Yoffee, Patricia Ann Mcanany Hardcover, 390 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-51572-6, ISBN: 0-521-51572-6 "Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events, such as the deforestation ..." |
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