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Everyday life matters [electronic resource] : Maya farmers at Chan / Cynthia Robin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 2015); Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 243 pages) :) illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780813048567
  • 0813048567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 372.83 22
LOC classification:
  • H86 .E384 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: understanding everyday life. Part 1. Theory and method in everyday life -- 2. Social theory and everyday life -- 3. Archaeology and everyday life -- 4. Methods for a critical archaeology of everyday life. Part II. Everyday life at Chan. 5. Situating Chan -- 6. Everyday life at Chan -- 7. Why everyday life at Chan matters -- 8. Conclusion: everyday life matters -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: While the study of ancient civilizations has often focused on holy temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. The various chores of a person's daily life can be quite extraordinary and, even though they may seem trivial, such activities can have a powerful effect on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable in archaeology and anthropology.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: understanding everyday life. Part 1. Theory and method in everyday life -- 2. Social theory and everyday life -- 3. Archaeology and everyday life -- 4. Methods for a critical archaeology of everyday life. Part II. Everyday life at Chan. 5. Situating Chan -- 6. Everyday life at Chan -- 7. Why everyday life at Chan matters -- 8. Conclusion: everyday life matters -- Notes -- References -- Index.

While the study of ancient civilizations has often focused on holy temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. The various chores of a person's daily life can be quite extraordinary and, even though they may seem trivial, such activities can have a powerful effect on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable in archaeology and anthropology.

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