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LEADERS, FARMERS, AND CRAFTERS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADING HOUSEHOLDS AND HOUSEHOLDS ACROSS THE CHAN COMMUNITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2015

Cynthia Robin ,
Laura Kosakowsky ,
Angela Keller  and
James Meierhoff
Cynthia Robin*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1810 Hinman Ave, Evanston, Illinois 60208-1310
Laura Kosakowsky
Affiliation:
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, Arizona 85721-00030
Angela Keller
Affiliation:
Senior Archaeologist, AECOM, 901 Via Piemonte, 5th Floor, Ontario, California, 91764
James Meierhoff
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Behavioral Sciences Building Room 2102, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7139
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E-mail correspondence to: [email protected]
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Abstract

Households, communities, and society exist in a mutually constituting relationship, shaping and being shaped by one another. Daily life within households can have political dimensions and affect societal organization. Research at the Maya farming community of Chan in Belize demonstrates how households shaped their lives, history, and politics for 2,000 years (800 b.c.–a.d. 1200). We examine the households of Chan's leaders and the social, economic, political, and religious relationships between leading households and other households across the community to show how novel forms of political practice arose through household interaction. Community leaders and households across the community developed community-focused ritual practices and group-oriented social, economic, ideological, and political strategies that were critical in the development of their community, were distinctive from normative individual-focused political practices of the Classic Maya kings, and may have influenced the later development of more diverse political strategies in the Maya area in the Postclassic period.

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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. 371 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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