Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World
Elisabeth A. Bacus and Lisa J. Lucero, Editors
Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 9
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Issues in the Archaeology of Tropical Polities
Elisabeth A. Bacus and Lisa J. Lucero
The Development of Prehistoric Complex Societies: Amazonia, A Tropical Forest
Anna C. Roosevelt
Water Control and Maya Politics in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Lisa J. Lucero
Women, Labor, and State Formation in Western Uganda
Peter Robertshaw
Prestige and Potency: Political Economies of Protohistoric Visayan Polities
Elisabeth A. Bacus
Staple Finance, Ritual Pig sacrifice, and Ideological Power in Ancient Hawaii
Michael J. Kolb
A Microregional View of Cycling Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos
Elsa M. Redmond, Rafael A. Gasson and Charles S. Spencer
Managing a Tropical Environment: State Development in Early Historical-Era Kedah, Malaysia
Jane Allen
Floodplains and the Development of Complex Society: Comparative Perspectives from the West African Semi-arid Tropics
Susan Keech McIntosh
Water, Urbanization, and Disease in Ancient Indonesia
John N. Miksic
Stone Cities, Green Cities
Elizabeth Graham
Observations on Political Ideology in Complex Societies in the Tropics–and Elsewhere
Mary W. Helms
List of Contributors
- Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World
ISBN 0-913167-96-7
1999
iii + 201 pages
8-1/2 x 11