ABSTRACT
Changes in the organization of power and the distribution of people and crafts within La Sierra were apparently related to comparable developments throughout the Naco Valley. The Terminal Classic Naco Valley political economy, therefore, was not the product of a centrally conceived design imposed by elites. La Sierra's elites during the Terminal Classic, therefore, shared the political stage with other members of the aristocracy. Carole Crumley is a pioneer in the archaeological study of ancient landscapes, or the many ways political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological variables are interrelated in shaping people's relations to, and understandings of, the places where they live. Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist and anthropologist, was one of the most influential social scientists of the late 20th century. He challenged traditional approaches to the study of human behavior that stressed the power of economic, social, political, and ideological structures to determine human actions.
