Series: Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organisation and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and...

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organisation and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and...