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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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

Dimensions of Ritual Economy, Volume 27(1st Edition)
(Research in Economic Anthropology)
by Patricia Ann Mcanany, E. Christian Wells, Richard Ed. Wells, Donald Wood, John Bishop, Wells Mcanany
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISBN-13: 978-0-7623-1485-0, ISBN: 0-7623-1485-0

"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 ..."