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Background Background
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Early Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca Early Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca
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Feasting Feasting
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Public Performance Public Performance
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Music Music
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Sport Sport
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Ritual Practice Ritual Practice
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Conclusions: The Interplay of the Senses Conclusions: The Interplay of the Senses
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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4 Full Bellies, Ringing Ears, and Smoke in Their Eyes: The Sensations of Social Change in Mesoamerica’s Early Formative Period
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Published:May 2022
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Abstract
Traditionally, the sociocultural changes of Mesoamerica’s Early Formative period (2000–1000 cal BCE), which included an increasing reliance on domesticates and the adoption of more complex modes of social organization, have been considered from theoretical perspectives focused on discussion of trade routes, settlement practices, and especially of subsistence economies. This theoretical bias is due, perhaps, to a lack of textual records from the era and the notion that the further one goes back in time the more one strays from ethnographic and ethnohistoric data. Far fewer are the serious considerations of Early Formative period cosmology and phenomenology. In this chapter Hepp explores the sensorial implications of Early Formative period archaeological contexts, particularly in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, with the archaeology of the senses providing a glimpse of the lived experience of this period of significant transformation. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric data indicate some of the sensorial aspects of social change in the Early Formative were maintained in later Mesoamerican history. Comparisons of evidence for feasting, public performance, ball games, and ritual evince diverse patterns of shared practice and regionalism demonstrating that Oaxaca, today one of the most culturally diverse places in the Americas, has long been home to compelling diversity.
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