Based on a symposium held during the 67th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver in Mar. 2002. Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-287) and index.
Contents:
Intermediate elites in new world states and empires / Christina M. Elson and R. Alan Covey -- Resistance strategies and early state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond -- Intermediate elites and the political landscape of the early Zapotec state / Christina M. Elson -- Intermediate-elite agency in the Wari empire : the bioarchaeological and mortuary evidence / Tiffiny A. Tung and Anita G. Cook -- The role of intermediate elites in the balkanization and reformation of post-Wari society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee and Katharina Schreiber -- Intermediate elites in the Inka heartland, A.D. 1000-1500 / R. Alan Covey -- The management of scale or the creation of scale : administrative processes in two Inka provinces / Craig Morris and R. Alan Covey -- The role of provincial elites in the Aztec empire / Frances Berdan -- Provincial elites and the limits of dominant ideology in the Aztec empire / Elizabeth Brumfiel -- Collagua eco-logistics : intermediate elites and hybrid community structures in the Colca Valley, Peru / Steven Wernke -- Identifying elites and their strategies / Joyce Marcus.
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