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... components of this ancient culture through archaeological research. The second part identifies six major periods of culture history at Kaminaljuyu, spanning the 2,000 years before Columbus. In depicting the slow changes through these millennia, Michels shows the evolution of this “chiefdom” and its...

... for a more careful editing of the manuscript that might have eliminated some of the more glaring blunders. Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Chiefdoms under Siege: Spain’s Rule and Native Adaptation in the Southern Colombian Andes, 1555–1700 . By Calero Luis F. . Albuquerque...

...Karen Spalding Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms . By Salomon Frank . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . Figures. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Glossary. References. Index . Pp. xviii , 274 . Cloth...

... studies of the Mixtee. Of the 13 subsequent chapters, this reviewer concentrated on those dealing with chiefdoms or cacicazgos, as the book’s title suggests. John K. Chance presents a stimulating comparative analysis of the Indian elites during the late colonial period (chapter 2). He compares...

... and John Pohl on the Mixteca Alta (chapter 11), and Mary Pohl and John Pohl on the Maya (chapter 13). The second part of the book uses chiefdom societies as case studies. All the chapters in this part are very important syntheses of long-term archaeological field research and are useful reading...

... markets” (p. 906). Whitehead insists, finally, on the multiple processes of ethnification and ethnogenesis through the emergence of colonial tribes in the “tribal zones,” the transformation of chiefdoms into tribes in the zones under the colonial yoke, and the process of ethnic recomposition...

... Helms’s work presents a daring and unusual interpretation of the nature and sources of power in the pre-Columbian chiefdoms of Panama. She proposes that the ancient chiefs drew their power from control over interregional exchange networks. The function of these networks was not to establish commercial...

... , $24.95 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 A good academic book on the prehistory of Ecuador is rare, but a book that combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to produce interesting and challenging interpretations about local polities known as “chiefdoms...

.... Illustrations . Pp. 143 . Paper . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The present study on the Astos of Peru—a prehispanic chiefdom situated on the high slopes of the Department of Huancavelica—is interesting for many reasons. First, the authors have taken a broader view of archeological...

... to the emergence of centralized political structures. Social stratification, insofar as it can be deduced from archaeological evidence, is a major feature of most of the essays. Authors disagree about the evidence for a “unitary theory of the origin of chiefdoms and, by extension, of the state itself...

...Bernard Ortiz De Montellano A second purpose, in which Fowler is less successful, is to explain why the Pipil evolved into a state-level civilization while the Nicarao reached only that of a maximal chiefdom, when the two groups share a common cultural heritage and very similar ecosystems...

.... Second, there were changes that these states created in their relationship with the nonstates (bands, chiefdoms, etc.) of the Southwest. Finally, the nonstates themselves affected the incorporation process. By testing the world-system model with the historical realities of the Southwest, Hall is able...

... Sturtevant describes sixteenth-century Taino agriculture in Hispaniola; Gerardo Reichel-Dolomatoff discusses “The agricultural basis of the Sub-Andean chiefdoms of Columbia”; and Donald Collier outlines the sequence of agricultural types on the Peruvian coast. The carefully researched papers...

... by papers on the mummification practices of the kin-based Chinchorro society by the Chilean archaeologist Mario Rivera, the tombs of the San Agustín chiefdoms in Colombia by Robert D. Drennan, the Nazca by Patrick H. Carmichael, and state societies on the Moche by Christopher Donnan. An article by John W...

... Rappaport on the chiefdoms of the Páez. The remaining 33 were by Colombian scholars. This is, in fact, a pithy collection of essays which survey various aspects of Colombian history from prehistory to the immediate past. Space does not permit a detailed examination of each, but, even after making...

.... Valencia achieves much in this book. His synthesis of a broad range of material within a comparative framework will be of great utility to Colombianists, as well as to students of chiefdoms in the Americas. His study of ethnogenesis in regions of refuge is an important warning against the reification...

... developed beyond the chiefdom level. The Calusa and their centralized, cohesive sociopolitical order survived until the eighteenth century, even though they had repeated contacts with the Spaniards, some of which they initiated in an effort to obtain trade goods. This book contains translated documents...

... to the shift to horticulture. The third part examines the complex chiefdoms of late pre-Columbian Florida and the influences of Mississippian culture (agriculture, ceremonialism, material culture) on them. Taking the holistic approach that is characteristic of good archaeology, Milanich synthesizes data...

.... A second was the remnant of peoples who moved into the Tombigbee and Alabama river basins after the breakup of the Moundville paramount chiefdom (before 1450) and then were pushed west by the formation of the Creek confederacy. The third came from among groups living along the Mobile and Pearl Rivers...

... activities set up by the Europeans, as well as the rate and size of demographic decline. Thus, in general, encomienda became the main extractive system where states or complex chiefdoms had existed; church missions sought to control tribal societies with local leadership and small surpluses; and Europeans...