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Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the cloth of socioeconomic relationships and spiritual perform that sure the Postclassic Maya urban of Mayapán's city citizens jointly for almost 3 centuries. providing result of ten years of family archaeology on the urban, together with box examine and laboratory research, the e-book discusses the social, political, fiscal, and ideological make-up of this advanced city middle.

Masson and Peraza Lope's precise review offers facts of a colourful industry financial system that performed a serious position within the city's political and monetary good fortune. they provide new views from the houses of governing elites, secondary directors, prosperous artisans, and poorer participants of the provider industries. family occupational experts trusted local exchange for simple provisions that have been necessary to crafting industries, sustenance, and caliber of lifestyles. payment styles exhibit tricky relationships of families with associates, backyard plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and assets. city making plans endeavored to unite the cityscape and to combine a pluralistic population that derived from hometowns around the Yucatán peninsula.

New information from Mayapán, the top of Postclassic Maya society, give a contribution to a paradigm switch concerning the evolution and association of Maya society usually and make Kukulcan's Realm a must-read for college students and students of the traditional Maya and Mesoamerica.

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