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Ancient Panama

- Chiefs in Search of Power
Af: Mary W. Helms Engelsk Paperback

Ancient Panama

- Chiefs in Search of Power
Af: Mary W. Helms Engelsk Paperback
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Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of the European conquest. Mary W. Helms''s research greatly expands knowledge of the distribution, extent, and structural nature of these pre-Columbian chiefdoms.

In addition, Helms delves more deeply into select aspects of ancient Panamanian political systems, including the relationship between elite competition and chiefly status, the use of sumptuary goods in the expression of elite power, and the role of elites in regional and long-distance exchange networks. In a significant departure from traditional thinking, she proposes that the search for esoteric knowledge was more important than economic trade in developing long-distance contact among chiefdoms.

The primary data for the study are derived from sixteenth-century Spanish records by Oviedo y Valdés, Andagoya, Balboa, and others. The author also turns to ethnographic data from contemporary native people of Panama, Colombia, tropical America, and Polynesia for analogy and comparison. The result is a highly innovative study which illuminates not only pre-Columbian Panamanian elites but also the nature of chiefdoms as a distinctive cultural type.

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Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of the European conquest. Mary W. Helms''s research greatly expands knowledge of the distribution, extent, and structural nature of these pre-Columbian chiefdoms.

In addition, Helms delves more deeply into select aspects of ancient Panamanian political systems, including the relationship between elite competition and chiefly status, the use of sumptuary goods in the expression of elite power, and the role of elites in regional and long-distance exchange networks. In a significant departure from traditional thinking, she proposes that the search for esoteric knowledge was more important than economic trade in developing long-distance contact among chiefdoms.

The primary data for the study are derived from sixteenth-century Spanish records by Oviedo y Valdés, Andagoya, Balboa, and others. The author also turns to ethnographic data from contemporary native people of Panama, Colombia, tropical America, and Polynesia for analogy and comparison. The result is a highly innovative study which illuminates not only pre-Columbian Panamanian elites but also the nature of chiefdoms as a distinctive cultural type.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 244
ISBN-13: 9780292726574
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0292726570
Kategori: Panama
Udg. Dato: 1 aug 1979
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato: 1 aug 1979
Forfatter(e): Mary W. Helms
Forfatter(e) Mary W. Helms

Kategori Panama

ISBN-13 9780292726574

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 244

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 1 aug 1979

Oplagsdato 1 aug 1979

Forlag University of Texas Press

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