The Archaeology Of Equality And Inequality

Paynter, Robert

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“…There already exist a number of excellent syntheses of models for the emergence of prehistoric inequality. Among the most recent overviews are those by Paynter (1989), , Lightfoot (1993), Smith (1993), Matson and Coupland (1995), , and Feinman (1995).…”

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“…If they perceived an individual's behavior as detrimental to the greater welfare of community members, the individual was usually asked to leave, forced to leave, or killed. There exist more than enough of these kinds of controls, and I had heard stories of many of them being used during my work in the Maya Highlands (see also Blake and Clark, 1989;Paynter, 1989;Upham, 1990). It therefore seemed that emergent aggrandizers and elites could not have initially done anything to threaten the well-being of other community members (in contrast to other political theories based on the use of force, such as Antonio Gilman's).…”

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Archaeology at the Millennium

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2001

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Archaeology at the Millennium

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2001

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“…Recognition of the importance of these opposing interpersonal relations, what has been termed the "dialectic of control" (Giddens 1984:374), elim-inates the necessity to polarize the so-called functionalist (leaders as "systemserving'') and political (leaders as "self-serving'') models for the development of inequality (e.g., Paynter 1989). Clearly, it is difficult to envision ascriptive leadership and increasing inequality simply as societal problem-solving mechanisms (see Paynter 1989:373-376), so the latter argument remains central.…”

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“…Cultural anthropologists have dealt with the subject for many years (e.g., Leach 1965;Service 1978;Terray 1972). In archaeology, a variety of ideas have developed on what social inequality is and how and why it began (e.g., Aldenderfer 1992; Flannery 1972; Johnson and Earle 1987;McGuire and Paynter 1991;Paynter 1989;Upham 1990).…”

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Foundations of Social Inequality

Price¹,

Feinman²

1995

Fundamental Issues in Archaeology

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anthropology as defined by Franz Boas and others at the beginning of this century.Fundamental Issues in Archaeology, then, is a new series of publications focusing on current, critical issues of broad relevance in anthropological archaeology. The thrust of the volumes will be topical and comparative, rather than areal or methodological; we will concentrate on issues, rather than techniques or regional syntheses. We will consider both monographs and edited volumes that are concerned with basic questions of research and theory. The series will publish both fully authored monographs and integrated edited works that fit its theme and goals. We welcome manuscripts and suggestions for the evolution of Fundamental Issues.

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“…Research at Acocotla owes its definition and form to this diverse heritage and articulates with several current disciplinary agendas in Latin American and historical archaeology, including studies of subaltern groups and the emergence of a scientifically grounded social archaeology (e.g., Benavides 2001;Fournier 1999;Funari 1997;Jamieson 2005;Politis and Gollán 2008;Rodríguez and López 2001); investigations of the African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere with emphasis on studies conducted on former plantation/hacienda sites (e.g., Delle 2009;Fennell 2011;Franklin and McKee 2004;Funari 2006;Hauser 2011;Orser and Funari 2001;Singleton 1999Singleton , 2001Singleton and Souza 2009); and studies of the archaeology of social inequality as manifest in the historical archaeological and documentary records (e.g., Delle et al 2000;Little 1994;McGuire and Paynter 1991;Mrozowski 2000;Paynter 1989). Research at Acocotla owes its definition and form to this diverse heritage and articulates with several current disciplinary agendas in Latin American and historical archaeology, including studies of subaltern groups and the emergence of a scientifically grounded social archaeology (e.g., Benavides 2001;Fournier 1999;Funari 1997;Jamieson 2005;Politis and Gollán 2008;Rodríguez and López 2001); investigations of the African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere with emphasis on studies conducted on former plantation/hacienda sites (e.g., Delle 2009;Fennell 2011;Franklin and McKee 2004;Funari 2006;Hauser 2011;Orser and Funari 2001;Singleton 1999…”

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Historical Archaeology at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla, Puebla, Mexico

Newman¹

2014

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O ver the course of the past three decades, new research in the field of historical archaeology has extended Mesoamerican archaeology's long established focus on the region's rich precolumbian heritage into the period following the arrival of the Spaniards and establishment of European rule (Blackman et al. Zeitlin 2005). Within this area of study, the archaeology of haciendas has become an emerging subfield grounded-as much of historical ar-chaeology in Mesoamerica is-in enhancing our understanding of continuities and change among indigenous communities during the nearly 500 years since the Spanish conquest. In the case of hacienda studies, this focus has also emphasized the ways by which these continuities and change were impacted by the dominant Spanish labor/power structure (Since 2004, archaeological, ethnographic, and archival investigations at the ex-hacienda San Miguel Acocotla in Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico, have explored the lives of indigenous workers who toiled at the hacienda from 1577 through the twentieth-century Mexican Revolution. The aim of this project is to understand the ways in which incorporation into an industrial capitalist system impacted individual and community identity. This report presents a summary of the archaeological components of the project. Research focused on the area of worker housing, the calpanería, in an effort to expand our understandings of the conditions of daily life of the hacienda's indigenous workers. I describe the completed fieldwork and summarize the results of studies of nineteenth-century domestic architecture and foodways. These data challenge assumptions about the quotidian experiences of hacienda laborers, often made using incomplete historical records, and allow us to connect the ethnographic present with the prehispanic past by illuminating the transformative processes at work in rural Mexico during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Desde 2004 se han llevado a cabo investigaciones arqueológicas, etnográficas e históricas que exploran las vidas de los trabajadores indígenas que laboraron en la hacienda de San Miguel Acocotla desde 1577 hasta la RevoluciónMexicana. El objetivo de este trabajo es entender el impacto que la incorporación al sistema económico capitalista tuvo en la identidad de los individuos y de la comunidad. El presente reporte se enfoca en la parte arqueológica del proyecto. Las excavaciones se concentraron en la calpanería, el área habitacional de los trabajadores de la hacienda, en un esfuerzo por entender sus condiciones de vida cotidiana. Primeramente se describe el trabajo de campo que se ha completado hasta el momento. También se presenta un resumen de los resultados de los estudios sobre alimentación y arquitectura doméstica del siglo XIX. Estos datos ponen en duda las suposiciones tradicionales sobre las experiencias cotidianas de los trabajadores de las haciendas, las cuales frecuentemente se basan en registros históricos incompletos, y también nos permiten conectar el presente etnográfico con el pasado prehispánico al poner...

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The Archaeology Of Equality And Inequality

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Archaeology at the Millennium

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