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The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan: A Conjunctive Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert M. Carmack  and
John M. Weeks
Robert M. Carmack
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222
John M. Weeks
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222
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Abstract

Recent studies of sixteenth century Quiche-Maya society have resulted in a sociocultural reconstruction based on the integration of archaeological and ethnohistorical data sets. Certain aspects of the internal social system of two contemporaneous settlement centers are examined in the context of this model and correspondences are noted. Contradictions between data sets suggest the applicability of an explicitly dialectical perspective.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 323 - 341
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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