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Houses in a landscape : memory and everyday life in Mesoamerica / Julia A. Hendon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendon, Julia A. (Julia Ann)
- Series:
- Material worlds (Duke University Press)
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Material worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Honduras--Antiquities.
- Mayas.
- Maya architecture--Honduras.
- Maya architecture.
- Copán Site (Honduras).
- Honduras--Antiquities.
- Honduras.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Communities of practice in Honduras in the seventh century through the eleventh
- The enchantment and humility of objects
- The semiotic house : everyday life and domestic space
- Embodied forms of knowing
- Relational identities and material domains
- Special events at home
- Ballcourts and houses : shared patterns of monumentality and domesticity
- Communities of memory and local histories.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036278
- 9781283036276
- 1283036274
- 9780822391722
- 0822391724
- OCLC:
- 645327428
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