book chapter
The Unification of the Valley of Oaxaca
Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley, Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery • New York, N.Y. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 155-171, 248
By: Marcus, Joyce, Flannery, Kent V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Marcus and Flannery discuss the evolution of Monte Albán society from a chiefdom to a state. They use Hawaii from 1789 to 1810 as a model for state formation. In 1789 Hawaii consisted of several independent chiefdoms, by 1810 it was ruled by one ruler. The process may have been the same for Monte Albán, although is took several hundred years to achieve statehood. Marcus and Flannery 'believe that states arise [i]when one member of a group of chiefdoms begins to take over its neighbors[i/], eventually turing them into subject provinces of a much larger polity.' (page 157). They look for evidence that Monte Albán I society was a series of chiefdoms or a state by examining 'its demographic profile, its settlement hierarchy, its public buildings, its elite residences, [and] its distinctive syles of art and writing.' (page 155).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Form and rules of government
- Community heads
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Highland Mesoamerican Late 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- 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
- 2300-2100 BP (300-100 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248)
- 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