The Neighborhood As a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (357 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface - Michael E. Smith, M. Charlotte Arnauld, and Linda R. Manzanilla -- 1. Introduction: Neighborhoods and Districts in Ancient Mesoamerica - Michael E. Smith and Juliana Novic -- 2. Neighborhoods and the Civic Constitutions of Premodern Cities as Seen from the Perspective of Collective Action - Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher -- I: The Central Highlands -- 3. Neighborhoods and Elite "Houses" at Teotihuacan, Central Mexico - Linda R. Manzanilla -- 4. Structure and Organization of Neighborhoods in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan - Sergio Gómez-Chávez -- 5. The "Tlajinga Barrio" A Distinctive Cluster of Neighborhoods in Teotihuacan - Randolph J. Widmer and Rebecca Storey -- 6. Teotihuacan Neighborhoods and the Health of Residents The Risks of Preindustrial Urban Living - Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Márquez-Morfín, and Luis F. Núñez -- 7. Compact Versus Dispersed Settlement in Pre-Hispanic MesoamericaThe Role of Neighborhood Organization and Collective Action - Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- II: The Maya Area -- 8. Neighborhoods in Pre-Hispanic Honduras Settlement Patterns and Social Groupings Within Sites or Regions - Julia A. Hendon -- 9. Neighborhoods in Classic Lowland Maya Societies Their Identification and Definition from the La Joyanca Case Study (Northwestern Petén, Guatemala) - Eva Lemonnier -- 10. Houses, Emulation, and Cooperation Among the Río Bec Groups - M. Charlotte Arnauld, Dominique Michelet, Boris Vannière, Philippe Nondédéo, and Eva Lemonnier -- 11. Intermediate-Scale Patterns in the Urban Environment of Postclassic Mayapan - Timothy S. Hare and Marilyn A. Masson -- 12. Intermediate Settlement Units in Late Postclassic Maya Sites in the Highlands An Assessment from Archaeology and Ethnohistory - Marie Annereau-Fulbert. 13. Postclassic Maya "Barrios" in Yucatán An Historical Approach - Tsubasa Okoshi-Harada -- 14. Neighborhoods and Intermediate Units of Spatial and Social Analysis in Ancient Mesoamerica - M. Charlotte Arnauld -- About the Authors -- Index.
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Urban Indians-Mexico. Urban Indians-Central America. 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.