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Cynthia Robin
daily life
Dorothy Smith
ecology
elites
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Everyday Life Matters
farmers
feminist theory
habitus
Henri Lefebvre
ideology
James Scott
Marxism
Maya
Mesoamerica
Michel de Certeau
ordinary
peasant
phenomenology
politics
Postclassic
practical
Preclassic
quotidian
religion
resistance
social reconstruction
Stuart Hall
subaltern studies
sustainability
valley
Xunantnich
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062105
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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While the study of ancient civilizations most often focuses on 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. Various chores completed during the course of a person’s daily life, though at first glance trivial, have a powerful impact on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying the applications of everyday life in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of related disciplines.
Examining the two-thousand-year history (800 B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, Cynthia Robin’s ground-breaking work explains why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns. Robin argues that the impact of the mundane can be substantial, so much so that the study of a polity without regard to its citizenry is incomplete. Refocusing attention away from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life elucidated by anthropological theory, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the commonplace and to rethink the constitution of human societies by ordinary people living routine lives.
Examining the two-thousand-year history (800 B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, Cynthia Robin’s ground-breaking work explains why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns. Robin argues that the impact of the mundane can be substantial, so much so that the study of a polity without regard to its citizenry is incomplete. Refocusing attention away from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life elucidated by anthropological theory, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the commonplace and to rethink the constitution of human societies by ordinary people living routine lives.
Cynthia Robin, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, USA, is the editor of Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community.
