This quantity explores the ritual lifetime of Mesoamerica's universal electorate, in and out of the family sphere, from Formative via Postclassic sessions. construction from the basis that ritual and ideological expression inhered in any respect degrees of society in Mesoamerica, the members display that ideology didn't emanate exclusively from exalted contributors and that commoner ritual expression was once now not restricted to loved ones contexts. Taking an empirical method of this under-studied and under-theorized quarter, members use fabric facts to find how commoner prestige conditioned the expression of rules and values.
Revealing complicated social hierarchies that different throughout time and zone, this quantity bargains theoretical methods to commoner ideology, non secular perform, and sociopolitical association and builds a framework for destiny examine of the correlation of formality and ideological expression with social place for Mesoamericanists and archaeologists worldwide.
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