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Nine - Conflict

from Part II - Epigraphic Data on Classic Maya Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2020

Simon Martin
Simon Martin
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University of Pennsylvania
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Divided political landscapes such as that of the Classic Maya are, with a relentless regularity, filled with competing ambitions and deeply felt animosities. The periodic rupture of hidden fault-lines exposes where the pressure points and conflicting interests lay at any one time. War is one of the most complex of all social phenomena. While violent conduct may seem chaotic and emotionally driven it is, in the end, grounded in a calculation between the risks and rewards sufficient to motivate a life-threatening activity. Nonetheless, wherever we find it, warfare is shaped by powerful cultural understandings that dictate its form and meaning and these comprise an equal part with any pragmatic understanding.

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ConflictWarfareFortificationsCapturePrisonerSeasonailtyExileEarthworksFortress
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Ancient Maya Politics
A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE
 , pp. 196 - 236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Conflict
  • Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book: Ancient Maya Politics
  • Online publication: 13 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676694.009
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  • Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book: Ancient Maya Politics
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  • Conflict
  • Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book: Ancient Maya Politics
  • Online publication: 13 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676694.009
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