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DOMESTIC OFFERINGS AT EL PALMILLO

Implications for community organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2008

Gary M. Feinman ,
Linda M. Nicholas  and
Edward F. Maher
Gary M. Feinman*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Linda M. Nicholas
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Edward F. Maher
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
*
E-mail correspondence to:gfeinman@fieldmuseum.org
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Abstract

Although the topic has received recent attention, relatively little is known about how pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican communities were internally organized and interconnected. In this paper, we examine that question from the perspective of the Classic-period settlement of El Palmillo, in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Previous studies of the valley have postulated that communities often were (and still are) subdivided into barrios, although the modes of integration for those segments are less fully defined. Along these lines, we have previously identified commoner and higher-status houses at El Palmillo (along with associated artifactual and architectural inventories). We also have noted that different commoner houses were involved in distinct suites of craft activity, thereby indicating a degree of economic interdependence among these units. Here we expand our analysis to domestic offerings, which we found to vary across the excavated houses. Adapting a perspective from Durkheim's distinction between mechanical and organic solidarity, we find an expected organic (hierarchical) relationship between the offering assemblages of the higher-status residences and the offerings in commoner house lots. At the same time, we see another axis of variation in domestic offerings that appears more organic (nonhierarchical) in nature. The latter axis of variation at El Palmillo has a clear spatial component, in support of previous hypotheses that barrios or spatially defined social segments were important in Valley of Oaxaca pre-Hispanic communities. At El Palmillo, the definitional features of these social segments appear to have been ideological as well as economic.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Fall 2008 , pp. 175 - 194
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