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Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas (Hardcover)
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Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
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This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and
politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking
contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing
political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes
through an examination of how religion both facilitated and
constrained transformations in political organization and status
relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage
of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the
Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from
North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the
Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself
generated political innovation and thus enabled political
centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus
on elite religion to understand how local political authority was
negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse
constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed
non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh
perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new
ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
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