Domestic life in prehispanic capitals
Subtitle: a study of specialization, hierarchy, and ethnicity
By: edited by Linda R. Manzanilla and Claude Chapdelaine.
Contributors: Manzanilla, Linda.; Chapdelaine, Claude.
Series: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology / University of Michigan -- no. 46; Studies in Latin American ethnohistory & archaeology -- v. 7
Publisher: University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780915703715
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities; Indians of South America -- Antiquities; Capitals (Cities) -- Latin America -- History; Dwellings -- Latin America -- History; Home -- Latin America -- History; Neighborhoods -- Latin America -- History; City and town life -- Latin America -- History; Ethnoarchaeology -- Latin America; Latin America -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mesoamerican domestic structures, compounds, and neighborhoods / Linda R. Manzanilla; title: Ritual and social stratification at Monte Albán, Oaxaca : strategies from a household perspective / Ernesto González Licón; title: Corporate life in apartment and barrio compounds at Teotihuacan, central Mexico : craft specialization, hierarchy, and ethnicity / Linda R. Manzanilla; title: Household, workshop, guild, and barrio : the organization of obsidian craft production in a prehispanic urban center / Kenneth G. Hirth; title: Household, neighborhood, and urban structure in an "adobe city" : Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico / Dan M. Healan; title: Tikal : evidence for ethnic diversity in a prehispanic lowland Maya state capital / Marshall Joseph Becker; title: Maya home life : daily practice, politics, and society in Copan, Honduras / Julia A. Hendon; title: Beyond capitals and kings : domestic organization and ethnic dynamics at Chac-Sayil, Yucatan / Michael P. Smyth; title: Introduction to Andean examples / Claude Chapdelaine; title: Residence and ritual in Tiwanaku : hierarchy, specialization, ethnicity, and ceremony / John W. Janusek; title: Domestic life in and around the urban sector of the Huacas of Moche Site, Northern Peru / Claude Chapdelaine; title: Huari : a new direction in central Andean urban evolution / William H. Isbell; title: Domestic economy as political economy at Chan Chan, Peru / John R. Topic; title: Domestic life and craft specialization in Inka Cusco and its rural hinterland / R. Alan Covey; title: Understanding houses, compounds, and neighborhoods / Joyce Marcus.