Title: The neighborhood as a social and spatial unit in Mesoamerican cities /
Authors: Arnauld, Marie-Charlotte; Manzanilla, Linda; Smith, Michael E.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Urban residence; Indians of Central America Urban residence; Neighborhoods Mexico History.; Neighborhoods Central America History.; Social archaeology Mexico.; Social archaeology Central America.; Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico); Mexico Antiquities.; Central America Antiquities.
Contents: Introduction : neighborhoods and districts in ancient Mesoamerica / Michael E. Smith and Juliana Novic -- Neighborhoods and the civic constitutions of premodern cities as seen from the perspective of collective action / Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher -- Neighborhoods and elite "houses" at Teotihuacan, central Mexico / Linda R. Manzanilla -- Structure and organization of neighborhoods in the ancient city of Teotihuacan / Sergio Gómez-Chávez -- The "Tlajinga Barrio" : a distinctive cluster of neighborhoods in Teotihuacan / Randolph J. Widmer and Rebecca Storey -- Teotihuacan neighborhoods and the health of residents : the risks of preindustrial urban living / Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Márquez-Morfín, and Luis F. Núŭñez -- Compact versus dispersed settlement in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica : the role of neighborhood organization and collective action / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- Neighborhoods in pre-Hispanic Honduras : settlement patterns and social groupings within sites or regions / Julia A. Hendon -- Neighborhoods in classic lowland Maya societies : their identification and definition from the La Joyanca case study (northwestern Petén, Guatemala) / Eva Lemonnier -- Houses, emulation, and cooperation among the Río Bec groups / M. Charlotte Arnauld ... [et al.] -- Intermediate-scale patterns in the urban environment of postclassic Mayapan / Timothy S. Hare and Marilyn A. Masson -- Intermediate settlement units in late postclassic Maya sites in the highlands : an assessment from archaeology and ethnohistory / Marie Annereau-Fulbert -- Postclassic Maya "barrios" in Yucatán : an historical approach / Tsubasa Okoshi-Harada -- Neighborhoods and intermediate units of spatial and social analysis in ancient Mesoamerica / M. Charlotte Arnauld.