DUMBARTON OAKS PRE-COLUMBIAN SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA
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Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area

A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 10th and 11th October 1987

Edited by Frederick W. Lange

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ISBN 9780884021919

Publication Date: 01/01/1992

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  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. The Intermediate Area: An Introductory Overview of Wealth and Hierarchy Issues [Frederick W. Lange]
  • 2. The Pervasive Pejorative in Intermediate Area Studies [Payson D. Sheets]
  • 3. Early Formative Cultures in the Intermediate Area: A Background to the Emergence of Social Complexity [John W. Hoopes]
  • 4. Ancient Honduras: Power, Wealth, and Rank in Early Chiefdoms [Paul F. Healy]
  • 5. The Search for Elite Personages and Site Hierarchies in Greater Nicoya [Frederick W. Lange]
  • 6. Wealth and Hierarchy in the Archaeology of Eastern and Central Costa Rica [Michael J. Snarskis]
  • 7. Art-Tools and the Language of Power in the Early Art of the Atlantic Watershed of Costa Rica [Mark Miller Graham]
  • 8. The House and the Territory: The Organizational Structure for Chiefdom Art in the Diquis Subregion of Greater Chiriqui [Robert P. Drolet]
  • 9. The Origin of Wealth and Hierarchy in the Central Region of Panama (12,000–2,000 BP), with Observations on Its Relevance to the History and Phylogeny of Chibchan-Speaking Polities in Panama and Elsewhere [Richard G. Cooke and Anthony J. Ranere]
  • 10. Thoughts on Public Symbols and Distant Domains Relevant to the Chiefdoms of Lower Central America [Mary W. Helms]
  • 11. Monumental Sculpture as Evidence for Hierarchical Societies [Karen Olsen Bruhns]
  • 12. The Historiography of Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area [William R. Fowler, Jr.]
  • 13. Keeping Outsiders Out: Public Ceremony, Resource Rights, and Hierarchy in Historic and Contemporary Mapuche Society [Tom D. Dillehay]
  • 14. Summary: Perspectives on Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area [Frederick W. Lange]
  • Index

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