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Title The neighborhood as a social and spatial unit in Mesoamerican cities / M. Charlotte Arnauld, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Michael E. Smith, editors
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 344 pages)
Contents 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. Núñez -- 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 [and others] -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Urban Indians -- Mexico
Urban Indians -- Central America
Neighborhoods -- Mexico -- History
Neighborhoods -- Central America -- History
Social archaeology -- Mexico
Social archaeology -- Central America
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Urban Indians
Antiquities
Neighborhoods
Social archaeology
SUBJECT Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133958
Mexico -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538
Central America -- Antiquities
Subject Central America
Mexico
Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Teotihuacán Site
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Arnauld, Marie-Charlotte
Manzanilla, Linda
Smith, Michael E
LC no. 2012014654
ISBN 9780816599516
0816599513
9780816599516