Houses in a Landscape
Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2010
309 pages
978-0-8223-9172-2 (ISBN)
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An examination of the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras.
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Julia A. Hendon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Gettysburg College. She is the co-editor of Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice.
Content
Illustrations ix
Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Thinking About Memory 1
1. Communities of Practice in Honduras in the Seventh Century through the Eleventh 33
2. The Enchantment and Humility of Objects 63
3. The Semiotic House: Everyday Life and Domestic Space 91
4. Embodied Forms of Knowing 123
5. Relational Identities and Material Domains 149
6. Special Events at Home 181
7. Ballcourts and Houses: Shared Patterns of Monumentality and Domesticity 203
Conclusion: Communities of Memory and Local Histories 227
Notes 239
Bibliography 243
Index 283
Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Thinking About Memory 1
1. Communities of Practice in Honduras in the Seventh Century through the Eleventh 33
2. The Enchantment and Humility of Objects 63
3. The Semiotic House: Everyday Life and Domestic Space 91
4. Embodied Forms of Knowing 123
5. Relational Identities and Material Domains 149
6. Special Events at Home 181
7. Ballcourts and Houses: Shared Patterns of Monumentality and Domesticity 203
Conclusion: Communities of Memory and Local Histories 227
Notes 239
Bibliography 243
Index 283
