Cholula (Other Keyword)

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Man and Land at Prehispanic Cholula (1973)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Mountjoy. David Peterson.

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Round and Round We Go: Cholula, Rotating Power Structures and Social Stability in Mesoamerica (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Knab. John Pohl.

Rotating power structures of the mayordomías circulares in Cholula show extreme stability through time. We will analyze how these systems work and why they are so effective using notions of social capital to show how these and other organizations in Cholula build up social capital needed to keep Cholula’s baroquely complicated system of ritual festivals running. In so doing, we will show that the system can be sourced to the early post conquest when it was maintained by the city's merchants and...