| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references and index. This book examines the sociopolitical and cultural strategies of resistance developed by marginal communities. Case studies from historic California, Medieval Iceland, ancient Mesoamerica, ancient Nubia, Colonial El Salvador, the prehistoric Levant, pre-Columbian Amazon, Africa's historic central Sahel, and ancient Peru, offer perspectives on how societies adapted to these liminal spaces.--Provided by publisher. Introduction to life at the Margins / Bradley J. Parker, Alicia M. Boswell, and Kyle A. Knabb -- Avoiding "State-ness" in Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) southern Jordan: settlement patterns from marginal landscapes associated with autonomous social organization / Kyle A. Knabb -- A marginal yet essential landscape: Collambay in the margins of the Chimú Empire / Alicia Boswell -- The pot's gone cold: reconsidering the development of social complexity in medieval Iceland / Tara D. Carter -- Refuge, frontier, and citadel: mojos as a political landscape / John H. Walker -- "Tierras de ningún provecho": eastern El Salvador, colonialism, and the myth of emptiness / Esteban Gómez -- Beyond the periphery: comparing complexities in southern California / Erin M. Smith and Mikael Fauvelle -- Incorporating the hinterlands: defining social identity in the Maya mountains region, southern Belize / Claire Novotny -- (Un)becoming states: their neighbors and the Wandala South of Lake Chad / Scott MacEachern -- The southern periphery of Egypt in the Predynastic period: Nubia in the fifth and fourth millennium BC / Elena A.A. Garcea -- Epilogue: borderlandscapes / Bradley J. Parker.
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