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Urbanization and religion in ancient Central Mexico

Title: Urbanization and religion in ancient Central Mexico / David M. Carballo.
Author: Carballo, David M.
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Description

xv, 274 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred approximately two-thousand years ago and over a millennium before Mexico's best known early civilization, the Aztecs. David M. Carballo presents a synthesis of data from regional archaeological projects and key sites such as Teotihuacan and Cuicuilco, while relying on the author's own excavations at the site of La Laguna as the central case study. A principal argument is that cities and states developed hand in hand with elements of a religious tradition of remarkable endurance and that these processes were fundamentally entangled. Prevalent religious beliefs and ritual practices created a cultural logic for urbanism, and as populations urbanized they became socially integrated and differentiated following this logic. Nevertheless, religion was used differently over time and by groups and individuals across the spectra of urbanity and social status. This book calls for a materially informed history of religion, with the temporal depth that archaeology can provide, and an archaeology of cities that considers religion seriously as a generative force in societal change"--

Series Statement

Oxford studies in the archaeology of ancient states

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in the archaeology of ancient states.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Religion and Urbanization in Ancient Societies -- 2. The Central Mexican Highlands and its People -- 3. Formative to Classic in Central Mexico -- 4. Sacred Landscapes -- 5. Sacred Actors -- 6. Ritual and Religion in the Creation of Urban Landscapes.

ISBN

9780190251062
0190251069

LCCN

2015008764
40025325535

OCLC

ocn917888269
917888269
SCSB-5825124

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries