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POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE EVERYDAY IN POSTCLASSIC OAXACA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2015

Arthur A. Joyce ,
Marc N. Levine ,
Stacie M. King ,
Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin  and
Sarah B. Barber
Arthur A. Joyce*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Hale Science 350, Campus Box 233 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0233
Marc N. Levine
Affiliation:
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma 73072-7029
Stacie M. King
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Student Building 130, 701 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7100
Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Hale Science 350, Campus Box 233 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0233
Sarah B. Barber
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Phillips Hall room 309, Orlando, Florida 32816-1361
*
E-mail correspondence to: [email protected]
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Abstract

We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic period political institutions, commoners experienced greater economic and political autonomy. Residential excavations at Río Viejo indicate that commoners took advantage of the absence of regional authority to gain greater control over surplus craft products, especially cotton thread, as well as access to social valuables and long distance trade. By the Late Postclassic period, the region was once again dominated by powerful rulers. Yet household excavations at Tututepec show that Late Postclassic commoners continued to control some surplus craft production and had access to social valuables like copper and polychrome pottery via market exchange. We argue that Late Postclassic political relations were a product of negotiations among elites and commoners that in part reflect the greater economic autonomy and political power that Early Postclassic people had acquired.

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Special Section: Households Make History in Ancient Mesoamerica
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , Fall 2014 , pp. 389 - 410
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