Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 463 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 10-11, 1987 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "The Intermediate Area: an introductory overview of wealth and hierarchy issues" by Frederick W. Lange; "The pervasive pejorative in Intermediate Area studies" by Payson D. Sheets; "Early Formative cultures in the Intermediate Area: a background to the emergence of social complexity" by John W. Hoopes; "Ancient Honduras: power, wealth, and rank in early chiefdoms" by Paul F. Healy; "The search for elite personages and site hierarchies in Greater Nicoya" by Frederick W. Lange; "Wealth and hierarchy in the archaeology of eastern and central Costa Rica" by Michael J. Snarskis; "Art-tools and the language of power in the early art of the Atlantic watershed of Costa Rica" by Mark Miller Graham; "The house and the territory: the organizational structure for chiefdom art in the Diquis subregion of Greater Chiriqui" by Robert P. Drolet; "The origin of wealth and hierarchy in the Central Region of Panama (12,000-2,000 BP), with observations on its relevance to the history and phylogeny of Chibchan-speaking polities in Panama and elsewhere" by Richard G. Cooke and Anthony J. Ranere; "Thoughts on public symbols and distant domains relevant to the chiefdoms of lower Central America" by Mary W. Helms; "Monumental sculpture as evidence for hierarchical societies" by Karen Olsen Bruhns; "The historiography of wealth and hierarchy in the Intermediate Area" by William R. Fowler, Jr; "Keeping outsiders out: public ceremony, resource rights, and hierarchy in historic and contemporary Mapuche society" by Tom D. Dillehay; "Summary: Perspectives on wealth and hierarchy in the Intermediate Area" by Frederick W. Lange.