Description: The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region. This volume brings Maya history and archaeology into the current conversation about rulership in premodern times.
Brief description: Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.