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Chichen Itza and Its Hinterland

A world-systems perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Susan Kepecs
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 5240 Social Science, 1180 Observatory Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Gary Feinman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 5240 Social Science, 1180 Observatory Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Sylviane Boucher
Affiliation:
Centro Regional de Yucatán–Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Apartado 1015, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Abstract

For too long, Mayanists working in northern Yucatan have retained a focus on the single site. Although a few recent papers have begun to examine this area in regional terms, the world-systems perspective has yet to be applied. In this paper the world-systems framework is used to examine the post-Teotihuacan core center of Chichen Itza and its hinterland. Various lines of information are combined to achieve the fullest possible picture, including new settlement-pattern data, related ethnohistoric material, and a brief consideration of existing iconographie studies. Comparative examples from contemporary sites in other parts of Mesoamerica are provided to illustrate the systemic interconnections that characterize a “world system.”

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