Brigitte Kovacevich is assistant professor ofanthropology at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuseson the complex interplay between technology, power, social action,and culture change in the past and present, and she is interestedin Mesoamerican archaeology, lithic analysis, householdarchaeology, gender, identity, and preindustrial economic systems.She is currently codirector of the Holt´un ArchaeologicalProject, Guatemala, and has conducted research in Mexico, Arizona,Tennessee, Kentucky, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Michael G. Callaghan is visiting assistant professor ofanthropology at Southern Methodist University. He specializes incomplex societies of Mesoamerica, with a specific emphasis onprehistoric economy and its articulation with politics and ritual.His research interests include Mesoamerican archaeology, theorigins of social complexity, prehistoric economies, thearchaeology of ritual, gender in archaeology, and ceramic analysis.He is currently codirector of the Holt´un ArchaeologicalProject, Guatemala.
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Inalienability, Value, and the Construction of Social Difference |
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Chapter 2 Olmec Things and Identity: A Reassessment of Offerings and Burials at La Venta, Tabasco |
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Chapter 3 Situational Inalienability and Social Change in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca |
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Chapter 4 The Bones of the Ancestors as Inalienable Possessions: A Bioarchaeological Perspective |
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Chapter 5 Cultivated Landscapes as Inalienable Wealth in Southeastern Mesoamerica |
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Chapter 6 Alienating Ancient Maya Commoners |
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Chapter 7 The Inalienability of Jades in Mesoamerica |
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Chapter 8 Maya Polychrome Vessels as Inalienable Possessions |
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Chapter 9 Negotiation of Inalienability and Meanings at the Classic Maya Center of Aguateca, Guatemala |
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Chapter 10 Land, Labor, Bodies, and Objects: Comments on Inalienability and Mesoamerican Social Life |
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Brigitte Kovacevich is assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on the complex interplay between technology, power, social action, and culture change in the past and present, and she is interested in Mesoamerican archaeology, lithic analysis, household archaeology, gender, identity, and preindustrial economic systems. She is currently codirector of the Holt´un Archaeological Project, Guatemala, and has conducted research in Mexico, Arizona, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Michael G. Callaghan is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He specializes in complex societies of Mesoamerica, with a specific emphasis on prehistoric economy and its articulation with politics and ritual. His research interests include Mesoamerican archaeology, the origins of social complexity, prehistoric economies, the archaeology of ritual, gender in archaeology, and ceramic analysis. He is currently codirector of the Holt´un Archaeological Project, Guatemala.
