caa a22 4500 388057939 CHVBK 20180307125112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956536100001978 doi S0956536100001978 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956536100001978 Carmean Kelli Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475-3119, USA Leadership at Sayil [Elektronische Daten] A study of political and religious decentralization [Kelli Carmean] This paper explores the nature of community leadership within the Late-Terminal Classic Maya site of Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico. The distribution of political and religious activities—as represented archaeologically by cylindrical stone monuments ("altars”) and Oxkutzcab Applique censers—is examined. It is argued that such activities are dispersed into the upper ranks of Sayil society, rather than concentrated in the royal, ruling sector. It is further argued that the residential areas in which political and religious activities were concentrated may have been the loci of lineage heads of Sayil, who maintained important leadership roles despite attempts at centralization by the rulers. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/2(1998), 259-270 0956-5361 9:2<259 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001978 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001978 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Carmean Kelli Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475-3119, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/2(1998), 259-270 0956-5361 9:2<259 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge