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cultural dynamics of mercantilism at Yaxchilan

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Date Issued:
1995
Summary:
A model establishes the cultural processes by which Yaxchilan became a major Lowland Maya mercantile center. The iconography and inscriptions are first examined to show that the political organization represented an epiphenomenal cultural process in Yaxchilan's florescene. The mercantile model based on known facts, examines many components relevant to the development of Yaxchilan's economic organization, namely, location, topography, climate, transportation systems, the Polanyi Port of Trade model, trade goods and their movement, socioeconomic organization, unprecedented site improvements, Maya trade networks and ideology. Areas for future study are articulated.
Title: The cultural dynamics of mercantilism at Yaxchilan.
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Name(s): Paddock, Peter Bulkey.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Kennedy, William J., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1995
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 129 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: A model establishes the cultural processes by which Yaxchilan became a major Lowland Maya mercantile center. The iconography and inscriptions are first examined to show that the political organization represented an epiphenomenal cultural process in Yaxchilan's florescene. The mercantile model based on known facts, examines many components relevant to the development of Yaxchilan's economic organization, namely, location, topography, climate, transportation systems, the Polanyi Port of Trade model, trade goods and their movement, socioeconomic organization, unprecedented site improvements, Maya trade networks and ideology. Areas for future study are articulated.
Identifier: 15151 (digitool), FADT15151 (IID), fau:11924 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1995.
Subject(s): Yaxchilán Site (Mexico)
Mayas--Economic conditions
Culture diffusion--Mexico
Mexico--Antiquities
Mercantile system--Mexico--History
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