Title

Situational Inalienability And Social Change In Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca

Abstract

This paper examines the role of caches, burials, and mortuary offerings as forms of inalienable wealth in the lower Río Verde valley of Pacific coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. Interred in socially meaningful places, bodies and objects were removed from circulation but remained integral to interactions among the living, acquiring "situational" inalienability. Tracing the history of caching and burial practices over the course of the later Formative period (400 B.C.E.-C.E. 250), we argue that these buried inalienable possessions were important elements of identity creation and also served both to establish and to undermine hierarchical social relations during the process of political centralization. © 2014 by the American Anthropological Association.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association

Volume

23

Issue

1

Number of Pages

38-53

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/apaa.12014

Socpus ID

84899625184 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84899625184

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