Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica - Paperbackby David M. Carballo (Author), Gary M. Feinman (Author) In considering the long trajectory of human societies, researchers have too often favored models of despotic control by the few or structural models that fail to grant agency to those with less power in shaping history. Recent scholarship demonstrates such models to be not only limiting but also empirically inaccurate. This Element reviews archaeological approaches to collective action drawing on