The Flow and Use of Power
The Flow and Use of Power
The Micro Scale of Political Analysis
This chapter focuses on the microscale of political analysis by considering how individuals, households, factions, power blocs, and communities participate in the politics of the Classic period. The topics examined are: the foundations of political power, the role of authority and legitimacy, claims to power, discourses of power, the existence and role of councils, the political power of commoners, and the rituals of politics depicted in Maya art in public stone monuments, in portable polychrome vessels, and in small figurines.
Keywords: Classic Maya, political power, authority, stone monuments, polychrome pottery, figurines, public transcript, hidden transcript, commoners
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