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Social Integration and the Classic Maya: Some Problems in Haviland's Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Evon Z. Vogt  and
Frank Cancian
Evon Z. Vogt
Affiliation:
Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts
Frank Cancian
Affiliation:
Cornell UniversityIthaca, New York
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Abstract

We have said that the cargo system integrates contemporary Maya communities and have suggested this interpretation as a model for interpretation of Classic Maya social organization. Haviland's arguments against this idea remain unsupported, especially because he misinterprets Cancian's study of Zinacantan and fails to use other studies of contemporary Maya communities.

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American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 101 - 102
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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