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Fourteen - Hegemony in Practice and Theory

from Part III - A Political Anthropology for the Classic Maya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2020

Simon Martin
Simon Martin
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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If hegemony was indeed the overriding mode of power shaping macro-political structure for the Classic Maya, we need to know more about its working principles. A political landscape that was essentially heterarchical but pervaded by great asymmetries in power is by no means unusual in world terms. Indeed, if we maintain our focus on political relations over those of political forms, we can identify a variety of historically known societies that were organised and functioned in very similar ways.

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HegemonyPowerMoralOrderSovereigntyAutonomyDynamicEquilibriumBalanceSecession
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Ancient Maya Politics
A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE
 , pp. 356 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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