John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial
Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the
later Maya state. Drawing this data from ethnographic analogy and
native chronicles as well as archaeology, he identifies segmentary
lineage organisation as the key to understanding both the political
organisation and the long-distance migrations observed among the
Quiche Maya of Guatemala and Mexico. The first part of the book
traces the origins of the Quiche, Itza and Xiu to the homeland on
the Mexican Gulf coast where they acquired their potent Toltec
mythology and identifies early segmentary lineages that developed
as a result of social forces in the frontier zone. Dr Fox then
matches the known anthropological characteristics of segmentary
lineages against the Mayan kinship relationships described in
documents and deduced from the spatial patterning within Quiche
towns and cities. His conclusion, that the inherently fissile
nature of segmentary lineages caused the leapfrogging migrations of
up to 500km observed amongst the Maya, offers a convincing solution
to a problem that has long puzzled scholars.
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