The complexity of the organization of craft production mirrors multiple aspects of the larger political economies of premodern states. At the late Maya urban center of Mayapán, variation in the social contexts of crafting within a single settlement defies simple classificatory models that once held sway in the literature of nonWestern state societies. Most surplus crafters were independent and affluent commoners; notable exceptions include artisans working under direct elite supervision or elites who were directly engaged in crafting. Although household workshops concentrated around the city’s epicenter, others were dispersed across the site in unassuming residential neighborhoods or near outlying monumental groups. We consider the significance of pronounced household and regional economic interdependencies founded on well-developed surplus crafting practices, imported raw materials, market exchange, and tribute obligations at Mayapán. As for other premodern states, craft production also gave rise to greater opportunities for wealth differentiation within the commoner class. Producers in this urban political capital contributed in significant ways to a stable political economy by supplying goods that were required at all levels of the social hierarchy.

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墨西哥尤卡坦半岛Mayapán的西班牙裔前城市环境中的家用工艺品生产

手工艺生产组织的复杂性反映了前现代国家更大的政治经济的多个方面。在玛雅潘（Mayapán）晚期的玛雅城市中心，单一定居点内手工艺社会背景的变化无视简单的分类模型，该模型曾经在非西方国家社会的文献中占主导地位。大多数多余的手工艺者都是独立而富裕的平民。值得注意的例外包括在直接精英监督下工作的工匠或直接从事手工艺的精英。尽管家庭作坊集中在城市的震中，但其他作坊却散布在整个场地中，没有居民居住区或附近的纪念性建筑群附近。我们认为，建立在良好的过剩手工艺，进口原材料，市场交换以及在Mayapán的贡税义务基础上的家庭和区域经济相互依存关系的重要性。至于其他前现代国家，手工艺品生产也为平民阶层内的财富分化带来了更多机会。这个城市政治资本中的生产者通过提供社会阶层各个层面所需的商品，为稳定的政治经济做出了重要贡献。