Preface viiList of Figures xiNotes on Contributors xvii1 Mesoamerica: From Culture Area to Networks of Communities of Practice 1Rosemary A. Joyce2 Polity and Power in the Olmec Landscape 32Christopher A. Pool3 Objects with Images: Meaning-Making in Formative Mesoamerica 71Rosemary A. Joyce4 Monumental Cityscape and Polity at Teotihuacan 98Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama5 Social and Ethnic Identity in the Classic Metropolis of Teotihuacan 129Linda R. Manzanilla6 Household Archaeology and the Ancient Maya 156Julia A. Hendon7 Inseparable Entities: Classic Maya Landscapes and Settlements 179Wendy Ashmore and Cynthia Robin8 Monte Albán and Early Urbanism in the Valley of Oaxaca: Maize, Mountains, and Monuments 203Arthur A. Joyce9 Conquests and Colonialisms in Postclassic and Early Colonial Nejapa, Oaxaca 229Stacie King10 Writing History in the Postclassic Mixteca 257Ludo Snijders11 Resiliency and Cultural Reconstitution of the Postclassic Mayapan Confederacy and Its Aftermath 278Marilyn A. Masson12 Home Is Where the Ithuallí Is: Toward a Microarchaeology of Aztec Households, Family Histories, and Social Identities 315Lisa Overholtzer13 Mexica Monumental Stone Sculpture: Constellations of Form, Meaning, and Change in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital 350Ángel González López14 Bioarchaeological Research on Daily Life in the Emerging Colonial Society of Mexico City 374Julie K. WespIndex 398
Julia A. Hendon is Professor of Anthropology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. Her current research focuses on the connections between particular forms of technology, the production of goods, and social identity. She is author of Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica, which was awarded the Linda S. Cordell Book Award in Archaeology in 2015, and is co-author of Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras.Lisa Overholtzer is Assistant Professor and William Dawson Chair in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research examines the everyday material practices of ordinary people in Postclassic and colonial central Mexico. She has published widely with work appearing in American Anthropologist and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, USA. She served as a curator and faculty member at Harvard University and as Director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley. She is the author of ten books including Painted Pottery of Honduras: Object Lives and Itineraries; Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives; The Languages of Archaeology; and Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica.