Religion And Politics In The Ancient Americas
Abstract
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
Publication Date
9-15-2017
Publication Title
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
Number of Pages
1-307
Document Type
Article; Book Chapter
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694856
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85050632577 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85050632577
STARS Citation
Barber, Sarah B. and Joyce, Arthur A., "Religion And Politics In The Ancient Americas" (2017). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 6374.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/6374