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The social experience of childhood in ancient Mesoamerica / edited by Traci Ardren and Scott R. Hutson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ardren, Traci.
Hutson, Scott.
Series:
Mesoamerican worlds
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indian children--Anthropometry--Central America.
Indian children.
Indian children--Anthropometry.
Social archaeology.
Human remains (Archaeology).
Central America.
Indian children--Anthropometry--Mexico.
Mexico.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Central America.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Mexico.
Social archaeology--Central America.
Social archaeology--Mexico.
Central America--Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities.
Physical Description:
xviii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2006]
Contents:
Setting the table : why children and childhood are important in an understanding of ancient Mesoamerica / Traci Ardren
Boys and girls interrupted : mortuary evidence of children from postclassic Cholula, Puebla / Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty
Children of K'axob : premature death in a formative Maya village / Rebecca Storey and Patricia A. McAnany
Identifying childhood among the ancient Maya : evidence toward social reproduction at the dancer household group in northwestern Belize / Rissa M. Trachman and Fred Valdez, Jr.
Children not at Chunchucmil : a relational approach to young subjects / Scott R. Hutson
Crafting children : materiality, social memory, and the reproduction of terminal classic house societies in the Ulúa Valley, Honduras / Jeanne Lopiparo
The marking of age in ancient coastal Oaxaca / Stacie M. King
Child martyrs and murderous children : age and agency in sixteenth-century transatlantic religious conflicts / Byron Ellsworth Hamann
The role of children in the ritual practices of the great temple of Tenochtitlan and the great temple of Tlatelolco / Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza and Ximena Chávez Balderas
The child and the childlike in Olmec art and archaeology / Billie Follensbee
Where we all begin : archaeologies of childhood in the Mesoamerican past / Rosemary A. Joyce.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0870818279
OCLC:
62782115
Publisher Number:
9780870818271 (hardcover)

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