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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard E. Blanton is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic. He is most renowned for his archaeological field and theoretical research into the development of civilizations in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly those from the central Mexican plateau and Valley of Oaxaca regions. Blanton taught at Rice University and Hunter College of the City University of New York before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 1976. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Purdue's College of Liberal Arts.
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- A Dual-Processual Theory for the Evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization (1996) (915)
- Collective Action In The Formation Of Pre-Modern States (2007) (326)
- Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions (1982) (267)
- The Mesoamerican World System (1984) (238)
- Monte Alban: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital (1978) (214)
- Houses and Households: A Comparative Study (2013) (144)
- Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2 (1989) (142)
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CITIES (1976) (123)
- The prehispanic settlement patterns of the central and southern parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (1982) (119)
- Houses and Households (1993) (91)
- How humans cooperate : confronting the challenge of collective action (2016) (88)
- Urbanization at Téotihuacan, Mexico (1982) (79)
- Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (75)
- Egalitarian Ideology and Political Power in Prehispanic Central Mexico: The Case of Tlaxcallan (2010) (69)
- Alternative pathways to power in late Postclassic Highland Mesoamerica (2011) (67)
- Boundaries, scale, and internal organization☆ (1983) (67)
- Ancient Oaxaca: The Monte Alban State (1999) (65)
- The Cultural Foundations of Inequality in Households (1995) (60)
- The collective logic of pre-modern cities (2011) (57)
- Long-Term Demographic Change: a Perspective from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (1985) (54)
- Scale and social organization (1980) (49)
- Regional Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (1979) (47)
- Tlaxcallan: the archaeology of an ancient republic in the New World (2011) (34)
- Settlement, subsistence, and social complexity : essays honoring the legacy of Jeffrey R. Parsons (2005) (33)
- Mediterranean myopia (2001) (31)
- Theories of ethnicity and the dynamics of ethnic change in multiethnic societies (2015) (28)
- The geopolitics of obsidian supply in Postclassic Tlaxcallan: A portable X-ray fluorescence study (2015) (28)
- Revenue, Voice, and Public Goods in Three Pre-Modern States (2007) (28)
- Patterns of exchange and the social production of pigs in highland new guinea: Their relevance to questions about the origins and evolution of agriculture (1995) (27)
- Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine settlement patterns of the coast lands of the Western Rough Cilicia (2000) (23)
- Collective Action and Adaptive Socioecological Cycles in Premodern States (2010) (23)
- Cultural Ecology Reconsidered (1980) (22)
- Ancient Oaxaca: The origins of Monte Albán (1999) (21)
- Prehispanic Adaptation in the Ixtapalapa Region, Mexico (1972) (18)
- The Cybernetic Analysis of Human Population Growth (1975) (18)
- The Fiscal Economy of Good Government (2021) (18)
- Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Ixtapalapa Peninsula Region Mexico (2015) (18)
- Collective Action in the Evolution of Pre-Modern States * (2009) (18)
- Economic analysis beyond the local system (1997) (17)
- Moral Collapse and State Failure: A View From the Past (2020) (17)
- Archaeology of the Origin of the State: The Theories (2012) (15)
- Prehispanic colonization of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (1986) (11)
- Market cooperation and the evolution of the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world-system (2012) (11)
- Urban Beginnings (1982) (9)
- 11 The Archaeology of Intermediate‐Scale Socio‐Spatial Units in Urban Landscapes (2019) (9)
- Remote Sensing of Turbidity in the Tennessee River Using Landsat 8 Satellite (2021) (8)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Contents (1999) (7)
- Wealth inequality, social stratification, and the built environment in Late Prehispanic Highland Mexico: A comparative analysis with special emphasis on Tlaxcallan (2020) (6)
- Exchange Systems in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica: Comparing Open and Restricted Markets at Tlaxcallan, Mexico, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize (2020) (6)
- Cities and Urbanism in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2012) (5)
- Aztec State-Making, Politics, and Empires (2017) (5)
- The Variety of Ritual Experience in Premodern States (2016) (5)
- The Ecological Perspective in Highland Mesoamerican Archaeology (1983) (4)
- How Humans Cooperate (2016) (3)
- [Comments and Replies] (1996) (3)
- Peasants, Agricultural Intensification, and Collective Action in Premodern States (2021) (3)
- A Comment on Steponaitis' Determination of Catchment Productivity (1983) (3)
- The Emergence of Monte Albán (2021) (2)
- Texcoco Region Archaeology (1975) (2)
- James C. Scott: Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 312.) (2019) (2)
- The Independent Republic of Tlaxcallan (2017) (2)
- Editorial: Origins, foundations, sustainability and trip lines of good governance: Archaeological and historical considerations (2022) (2)
- Center and Hinterland under Conditions of Collective Action (2016) (1)
- Cultural Transformation, Art, and Collective Action in Polity Building (2011) (1)
- 4. Monte Alban and After in the Valley of Oaxaca (2015) (1)
- Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Susan E. Alcock Terence N. D'Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Carla M. Sinopoli, editors. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. xxii + 523 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $95.00 (cloth). (2002) (1)
- Cooperation or Competition in the Marketplace (2016) (1)
- The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies. JEREMY A. SABLOFF and PAULA L. W. SABLOFF, editors. 2018. Santa Fe Institute Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. iv + 369 pp. $9.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-947864-03-0. (2019) (1)
- Mapping the Recovery Process of Vegetation Growth in the Copper Basin, Tennessee Using Remote Sensing Technology (2020) (1)
- Collective Action, Good Government, and Democracy in Tlaxcallan, Mexico: An Analysis Based on Demokratia (2022) (1)
- A Functionalist Paradigm for Architectural Analysis (1995) (1)
- The Origin of Avian-Serpent Imagery at Teotihuacan and Symbolic Interaction With Jaguar Iconography in Mesoamerica (2017) (1)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Synthesis and conclusions (1999) (0)
- Indexical and Social Boundary Communication (1994) (0)
- With moralizing gods, exclusion reigns. (2015) (0)
- Cooperation in State-Building?: An Investigation of Collective Action before and after the Rise of Modern Democracies (2016) (0)
- The Causes and Consequences of Collective Action (2016) (0)
- Crafting, Identity, and Power: A Comparative Analysis of Late Postclassic Facial Adornment Use in Central Mexico (2017) (0)
- Archaeological and Historical Contexts for the Coded Societies (2008) (0)
- ture and regional political and economic relationships throughout the Valley of Oaxaca. This monograph examines the growth of the Jalieza community into the region's dominant community between the Early Classic (Monte Alban IIIA) and the Early Postclassic (1997) (0)
- Collective Action and Political Evolution (2008) (0)
- Multiethnic Landscapes, Inclusive Identities, and Collective State Building (2018) (0)
- Household Social Reproduction and the Canonical Communication of Habitus (1994) (0)
- Rethinking the Aztec Economy. Deborah L. Nichols, Frances F. Berdan, and Michael E. Smith, eds. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2017, 320 pp. $65.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8165-3551-4. (2018) (0)
- The Classic Maya Collapse. T. Patrick Culbert, editor. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1973. 549 pp., 57 figs., 3 diagrams, 30 tables. No price given. (1975) (0)
- Theory Testing and a Question: Is State Formation a Product of Rational Choice or Symbolic Structure? (2008) (0)
- The Social Actor in Collective Action (2008) (0)
- After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Jeffrey Blomster (2009) (0)
- Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction. Edward M. Schortman and Patricia A. Urban, editors. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Plenum Press, New York, 1992. xii + 259 pp., figures, tables, references, index. ’45.00 (cloth). (1994) (0)
- Collective Action in State Building, Past and Present (2017) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Bibliographical essay (1999) (0)
- A Comparative Method (1994) (0)
- Anthropology: The Missing Voice in the Conversation about Cooperation (2016) (0)
- Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power. Michael Dietler , Brian Hayden (2002) (0)
- The Cultural Process of Cooperation (2016) (0)
- Modes of Control of Principals (2008) (0)
- Twenty‐Four Architectural Plans of Chan Chan, Peru: Structure and Form at the Capital of Chimor. Michael E. Moseley and Carol J. Mackey (1977) (0)
- Archaeology: Not Forever on Earth: Prehistory of Mexico. Shirley Gorenstein (1976) (0)
- Assessment 978-1108-83097-3 — Ancient Oaxaca (0)
- General/Theoretical Anthropology: Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies. Marvin Harris and Eric B. Ross (1988) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Introduction: Mesoamerica and its pre-Hispanic civilization (1999) (0)
- Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. Michael D. Coe, Javier Urcid, and Rex Koontz. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2019, 272 pp. $29.95, paper. ISBN 9780500841785. (2021) (0)
- benefit from an exhaustive list of relevant references on the Ifugao, and the inclusion of a genealogy of the literature on Ifugao and Philippine culture. References (2022) (0)
- Vegetative succession in a restored urban wetland: If we build it will they come? (2014) (0)
- Intermediate Scale Socio-Spatial Units, Collective Action, and the State in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2015) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: The Valley of Oaxaca: a regional setting for an early state (1999) (0)
- Collective Action Processes at World-Economy, Polity, and Community Scales (2008) (0)
- The Transition to Statehood in the New World. Grant D. Jones and Robert R. Kautz, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981. ix + 254 pp., illus., biblio., index. $27.50 (cloth). (1983) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Bibliography (1999) (0)
- Commercialization, Consumption, and Political-Economic Strategies in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica: A Comparative Study of Access to Projectile Points at Tlaxcallan and Santa Rita Corozal (2018) (0)
- A Macroregional Approach (1994) (0)
- Archaeology: The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization. William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley. (1981) (0)
- Prehispanic Colonization of the (1986) (0)
- The Path to Cooperation through Collective Action and Institutions (2016) (0)
- On the Need to Rethink Theories of State Formation and How Collective Action Theory Will Help (2016) (0)
- Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden That Never Was. (Book Reviews: Anthropology and History) (2002) (0)
- 14. The Rise of Cities (2015) (0)
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES * 9579 OF CITIES (1976) (0)
- Chipped Tool Production and Exchange in Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan: Integrating Specialized Production with the Political Economy of a Collective State (2017) (0)
- Selecting a Sample of Societies for Comparative Coding (2008) (0)
- Bibliographic Essays (2017) (0)
- The Collapse of Complex Societies. Joseph A. Tainter. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. xiv + 250 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $39.50 (cloth). (1990) (0)
- The changing role of Medieval women. (2014) (0)
- Frannie Berdan and Economic Anthropology (2015) (0)
- Tula: The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico. Richard A. Diehl. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1983. 184 pp., illus., biblio., index. $29.95 (cloth). (1985) (0)
- Southern Mexican Highlands Classic (2001) (0)
- Final Thoughts: Insights Gained from an Expanded Collective Action Theory (2016) (0)
- Ancient Oaxaca: The great transformation (1999) (0)
- Regional Analysis Volume I: Economic Systems. CAROL A. SMITH: Regional Analysis Volume II: Social Systems. CAROL A. SMITH (1978) (0)
- Science or Ideology? A Review of The Archaeology of Politics and Power by Charles Maisels (2011) (0)
- Collective Action and the Shaping of Cities and Their Neighborhoods (2016) (0)
- QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING OF SURFACE WATER QUALITY IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE USING PLANET DOVE IMAGERY (2020) (0)
- The build environment on Late Postclassic terraces in Tlaxcallan (2016) (0)
- Rethinking the Role of Agency in Political Evolution (2008) (0)
- Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginnings to the Present. Richard P. Schaedel, Jorge E. Hardoy, and Nora Scott Kinzer (1980) (0)
- Between Marx and Locke: approaching early complex societies (2018) (0)
- What Does Evolutionary Psychology Tell Us about Human Cooperation (2016) (0)
- Archaeology's Faustian Bargain (1998) (0)
- The Contingent Cooperator as Seen from the Perspectives of Neurobiology and Bioevolution (2016) (0)
- List of Accessions (1982) (0)
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