Maya Kingship

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Changes in Maya Rulership at the End of the Classic Period: An Introduction
M.Charlotte Arnauld, Tsubasa Okoshi, Arlen F. Chase, and Philippe Nondédéo

Part I. Theories

Chapter 2. K’uhul Ajaw and Sacred Kings: Historicity and Change in Sacred Royality/Divine Kingship Societies
Chloé Andrieu

Part II. Warring Kingdoms

Chapter 3. Nostalgic Kings: The Rhetoric of Terminal Classic Maya Inscriptions
Nikolaï Grube

Chapter 4. Waves of Political Ruptures during the Terminal Classic in the Pasión and Other Regions of the Maya Lowlands
Takeshi Inomata

Chapter 5. Warriors and the Transformation of Classic Maya Kingship: A Diachronic Analysis of Lithic Weapons in Copán, Honduras, Aguateca and Ceibal, Guatemala
Kazuo Aoyama

Chapter 6. From Kings to Nobles: The Political-Historical Context of Naachtun at the End of the Classic Period
Philippe Nondédéo, Julien Sion, Alfonso Lacadena, Ignacio Cases, and Julien Hiquet

Chapter 7. Deciphering the Collapse: An Account of Kingship in the Terminal Classic
Christophe Helmke, Julie A. Hoggarth, and Jaime J. Awe

Part III. Southern Lowlands, Shifting Societies and Economies

Chapter 8. Classic to Postclassic Maya Rulership: Changes in Military-Courtly Institutions
M. Charlotte Arnauld

Chapter 9. Reconstructing an Ancient State from its Bones, People and Households: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Late Classic of Copán, Honduras
Shintaro Suzuki and Ana Luisa Izquierdo

Chapter 10. Palatial Architecture and Political Order in the Maya Lowlands at the End of the Eighth Century
Tomás Barrientos Q.

Chapter 11. Title, Space, and Architecture: Negotiating Kingship in the Classic Maya Dynasty of El Palmar, Mexico
Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Octavio Q. Esparza Olguín

Chapter 12. Strength in the Face of Adversity: Terminal Classic Development of Nakum in a Wider Geopolitical Vantage
Jarosław Źrałka, Bernard Hermes, Christophe Helmke, and Simon Martin

Chapter 13. The Transformation of Maya Rulership at Caracol, Belize
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase

Part IV. The Northern Trajectory

Chapter 14. Stranger Kings in Northern Yucatan
William Ringle, Tomas Gallareta Negron, and George Bey

Chapter 15. Rulers at Chichen Itza at the End of the Classic Period: Their Continuity as Seen in Iconography and Architecture
Rafael Cobos

Chapter 16. The Rupture of Classic Maya Divine Kingship from the Perspective of Postclassic Archaeology, Iconography, and Ethnohistory
Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Chapter 17. Colonial Maya Discourse on Rupture and Transformation or Continuity of Pre-Columbian Kingship: An Ethnohistorical Analysis
Tsubasa Okoshi

Discussion

Chapter 18. The Collapse of the Southern Lowland Classic Maya City-States: Dynastic Disaster and Network Failure
Arthur Demarest, Chloé Andrieu, Bart Victor, and Paola Torres

Chapter 19. The Rupture and Transformation of Maya Kingship: An Epilogue
Arlen Chase, Tsubasa Okoshi, Philippe Nondédéo, M. Charlotte Arnauld, and Diane Z. Chase

References

List of Contributors

Index