Research Catalog

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

Title: The social experience of childhood in ancient Mesoamerica / edited by Traci Ardren and Scott R. Hutson.
Publication: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	copy 2	Text	Request in advance	F1435.2.C44 S63 2006 copy 2	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xviii, 309 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The first book to focus on children in ancient Mesoamerica, this reference offers a key methodological guide for archaeologists studying children and their roles not only in Mesoamerica, but also in ancient societies worldwide. Sure to appeal to New World and Old World archaeologists and anthropologists, The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica will open up new avenues of research into the lives of this previously overlooked population."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Mesoamerican worlds

Uniform Title

Mesoamerican worlds.

Alternative Title

Childhood

Subject

Note

Outgrowth of a session entitled "The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica" organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association held November 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0870818279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0870818279
9780870818271 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2005037321

OCLC

62782115
SCSB-10329128

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library