Maya Kingship, livre ebook

Examining changes to the institution of divine kingship from 750 to 950 CE in the Maya lowland cities, Maya Kingship presents a new way of studying the collapse of that civilization and the transformation of political systems between the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Periods.

Leading experts in Maya studies offer insights into the breakdown of kingship regimes, as well as the gradual urban collapse and settlement relocations that followed. The volume illuminates historical factors and actions that led to the end of the institution across kingdoms and the mechanisms that enabled societies to eventually recover with new political structures. Contributors provide archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, and ethnohistorical perspectives, exploring datasets in the spheres of warfare, social dynamics, economics, and architecture.

Unfolding with precision the chains of processes and events that occurred during the ninth and tenth centuries in the southern lowlands, and slightly later in the north, this volume displays an original and ambitious historical approach central to understanding one of the most radical political shifts to occur in the pre-Columbian Americas.

A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Contributors: Chloé Andrieu | Kazuo Aoyama | M. Charlotte Arnauld | Jaime J. Awe | Tomás José Barrientos Quezada |George J. Bey III | Ignacio Cases | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Rafael Cobos | Arthur Demarest | Octavio Q. Esparza| Tomás Gallareta Negrón | Nikolai Grube | Christophe Helmke | Bernard Hermes | Julien Hiquet | Julie A. Hoggarth | Takeshi Inomata | Ana Luisa Izquierdo | Alfonso Lacadena | Simon Martin | Philippe Nondédéo | Tsubasa Okoshi | William M. Ringle | Julien Sion | Shintaro Suzuki | Paola Torres | Kenichiro Tsukamoto | Bart Victor | Jarosław Źrałka

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Changes in Maya Rulership at the End of the Classic Period: An Introduction

M.Charlotte Arnauld, Tsubasa Okoshi, Arlen F. Chase, and Philippe Nondédéo

Part I. Theories

2. K’uhul Ajaw and Sacred Kings: Historicity and Change in Sacred Royality/Divine Kingship Societies

Chloé Andrieu

Part II. Warring Kingdoms

3. Nostalgic Kings: The Rhetoric of Terminal Classic Maya Inscriptions

Nikolaï Grube

4. Waves of Political Ruptures during the Terminal Classic in the Pasión and Other Regions of the Maya Lowlands

Takeshi Inomata

5. Warriors and the Transformation of Classic Maya Kingship: A Diachronic Analysis of Lithic Weapons in Copán, Honduras, Aguateca and Ceibal, Guatemala

Kazuo Aoyama

6. From Kings to Nobles: The Political-Historical Context of Naachtun at the End of the Classic Period

Philippe Nondédéo, Julien Sion, Alfonso Lacadena, Ignacio Cases, and Julien Hiquet

7. Deciphering the Collapse: An Account of Kingship in the Terminal Classic

Christophe Helmke, Julie A. Hoggarth, and Jaime J. Awe

Part III. Southern Lowlands, Shifting Societies and Economies

8. Classic to Postclassic Maya Rulership: Changes in Military-Courtly Institutions

M. Charlotte Arnauld

9. Reconstructing an Ancient State from its Bones, People and Households: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Late Classic of Copán, Honduras

Shintaro Suzuki and Ana Luisa Izquierdo

10. Palatial Architecture and Political Order in the Maya Lowlands at the End of the Eighth Century

Tomás Barrientos Q.

11. Title, Space, and Architecture: Negotiating Kingship in the Classic Maya Dynasty of El Palmar, Mexico

Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Octavio Q. Esparza Olguín

12. Strength in the Face of Adversity: Terminal Classic Development of Nakum in a Wider Geopolitical Vantage

Jarosław Źrałka, Bernard Hermes, Christophe Helmke, and Simon Martin

13. The Transformation of Maya Rulership at Caracol, Belize

Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase

Part IV. The Northern Trajectory

14. Stranger Kings in Northern Yucatan

William Ringle, Tomas Gallareta Negron, and George Bey

15. Rulers at Chichen Itza at the End of the Classic Period: Their Continuity as Seen in Iconography and Architecture

Rafael Cobos

16. The Rupture of Classic Maya Divine Kingship from the Perspective of Postclassic Archaeology, Iconography, and Ethnohistory

Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

17. Colonial Maya Discourse on Rupture and Transformation or Continuity of Pre-Columbian Kingship: An Ethnohistorical Analysis

Tsubasa Okoshi

Discussion

18. The Collapse of the Southern Lowland Classic Maya City-States: Dynastic Disaster and Network Failure

Arthur Demarest, Chloé Andrieu, Bart Victor, and Paola Torres

19. The Rupture and Transformation of Maya Kingship: An Epilogue

Arlen Chase, Tsubasa Okoshi, Philippe Nondédéo, M. Charlotte Arnauld, and Diane Z. Chase

References

List of Contributors

Index