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Part I. Introduction: 1. Factional competition and political development in the New World: an introduction Elizabeth M. Brumfiel | |
Part II. Chiefdoms: 2. The power of prestige: competitive generosity and the emergence of rank societies in lowland Mesoamerica John E. Clark and Michael Blake | |
3. Factional ascendance, dimensions of leadership, and the development of centralized authority Charles S. Spencer | |
4. External warfare and the internal politics of northern South American tribes and chiefdoms Elsa M. Redmond | |
5. Chiefdom rivalries, control, and external contacts in lower Central America Mary W. Helms | |
6. Factional competition and the political evolution of Mississippian chiefdoms in the southeastern United States David G. Anderson | |
Part III. States: 7. Ethnicity and political control in a complex society: the Tarascan state of prehispanic Mexico Helen Perlstein Pollard | |
8. Ethnic groups and factions in Aztec Mexico Elizabeth M. Brumfiel | |
9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family Rudolf Van Zantwijk | |
10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion Frederic Hicks | |
11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta Bruce E. Byland, and John M. D. Pohl | |
12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic valley of Oaxaca Stephen A. Kowalewski | |
13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya lowlands Mary E. D. Pohl and John M. D. Pohl | |
14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya John W. Fox | |
15. Factionalism and political development in the central Andes Terence N. D'Altroy | |
Part IV. Discussion | |
16. Factional competition and historical materialism Glenn Perusek | |
17 Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation and factionalism in New World political areas John W. Fox. |
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