book chapter
Creating prestige in egalitarian society
Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley, Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery • New York, N.Y. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 76-92, 247
By: Marcus, Joyce, Flannery, Kent V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Marcus and Flannery analyze in this article the various factors contributing to the development of individual leadership in Tierras Largas society. Since leadership was not hereditary a man could achieve prestige and status by accumulating followers, organizing labor for public construction and trade, stimulating craft production, and being successful in raiding activities. In addition to the above this study presents additional data on land use, diet, building types, settlement patterns, trade, and trading relationships.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- Tillage
- Ceramic technology
- Burial practices and funerals
- Status, role, and prestige
- Religious and educational structures
- Exchange transactions
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Highland Mesoamerican Early Preclassic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Middle America and the Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4000-2600 BP (2000-600 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vallley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95060561
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians--Antiquities/Zapotec Indians--Politics and government/Land settlement--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley/Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley/Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Antiquities