The power and ideology of artistic creation: Elite craft specialists in Classic Maya society

Current Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 321-349

  Inomata, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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