Community-based ecotourism management moving towards sustainability, in Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico

VSA Foucat - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2002 - Elsevier
Community-based ecotourism is an option for rural development, but few cases have shown
this to be sustainable. This paper assesses the sustainability of the Ventanilla community …

The archaeological study of empires and imperialism in pre-Hispanic central Mexico

ME Smith, L Montiel - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2001 - Elsevier
The hegemonic-type empires of ancient Mesoamerica are difficult to study archaeologically
because they left fewer material traces than more territorially organized empires such as the …

Surveys and Mesoamerican archaeology: the emerging macroregional paradigm

AK Balkansky - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2006 - Springer
This article is a review of regional archaeological surveys in Mexico, emphasizing published
full-coverage surveys from the last 20 years. The geographic focus is non-Maya Mexico …

Bridging the theoretical divide in Holocene landscape studies: social and ecological approaches to ancient Oaxacan landscapes

AA Joyce, M Goman - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
In this article we discuss two theoretical approaches to landscape studies in archaeology:
the ecological and social/symbolic. We suggest that an integrated approach can provide a …

Ensoulment, entrapment, and political centralization: a comparative study of religion and politics in Later Formative Oaxaca

AA Joyce, SB Barber - Current Anthropology, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this article, we examine the interplay of religion and politics during the later Formative
period of Mesoamerica through a comparison of two regions of southern Mexico: the lower …

Expansionary dynamics of the nascent Monte Albán state

RJ Sherman, AK Balkansky, CS Spencer… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Monte Albán state emerged in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, between 300 and 100 BC.
Archaeological evidence indicates that this case of state formation was linked to the …

New World states and empires: Politics, religion, and urbanism

ME Smith, KJ Schreiber - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2006 - Springer
The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex
societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; …

The emergence of pristine states

CH JM - Social Evolution & History, 2016 - cyberleninka.ru
In this article the emergence of the Pristine State will be considered. First, I will present an
overview of the applied method. Then seven cases of probable Pristine States are …

[图书][B] Alternative pathways to complexity: a collection of essays on architecture, economics, power, and cross-cultural analysis

LF Fargher, VY Heredia Espinoza - 2016 - library.oapen.org
"[T] he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which
Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from …

Monte Negro and the urban revolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

AK Balkansky, VP Rodríguez… - Latin American …, 2004 - cambridge.org
This paper is about Monte Negro's origins, and how this site fits the emerging pattern in
studies of Oaxacan urbanization including the Zapotec capital at Monte Albán. Our …