Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica by Julia A. Hendon
Requirements: .PDF reader, 3 MB
Overview: In "Houses in a Landscape", Julia A. Hendon examines 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.
While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the remains of their dead, remnants of their daily life, intricate works of art, and fine examples of craftsmanship such as pottery and stone tools, they left only a small body of written records. Despite the paucity of written information, Hendon contends that an archaeological study of memory in past societies like these is possible and worthwhile. It is possible because memory is not just a faculty of the individual mind operating in isolation, but a social process embedded in the materiality of human existence. Intimately bound up in the relations people develop with one another and with the world around them through what they do, where and how they do it, and with whom or what, memory leaves material traces.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
Download Instructions:
https://userupload.net/ih71rx0o3zv1
https://dropgalaxy.vip/auaa415eyxot
Trouble downloading? Read This.
Requirements: .PDF reader, 3 MB
Overview: In "Houses in a Landscape", Julia A. Hendon examines 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.
While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the remains of their dead, remnants of their daily life, intricate works of art, and fine examples of craftsmanship such as pottery and stone tools, they left only a small body of written records. Despite the paucity of written information, Hendon contends that an archaeological study of memory in past societies like these is possible and worthwhile. It is possible because memory is not just a faculty of the individual mind operating in isolation, but a social process embedded in the materiality of human existence. Intimately bound up in the relations people develop with one another and with the world around them through what they do, where and how they do it, and with whom or what, memory leaves material traces.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
Download Instructions:
https://userupload.net/ih71rx0o3zv1
https://dropgalaxy.vip/auaa415eyxot
Trouble downloading? Read This.