The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica

Traci Ardren is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami. Scott R. Hutson is associate professor in anthropology and international studies at the University of Kentucky.

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword by David Carrasco; List of Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1. Setting the Table: Why Children and Childhood Are Important in an Understanding of Ancient Mesoamerica; Traci Ardren; Part II: Defining the Child; 2. Boys and Girls Interrupted: Mortuary Evidence of Children from Postclassic Cholula, Puebla; Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty; 3. Children of K'axob: Premature Death in a Formative Maya Village; Rebecca Storey and Patricia A. McAnany; 4. 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.; Part III: Childhood in Practice; 5. Children Not at Chunchucmil: A Relational Approach to Young Subjects; Scott R. Hutson; 6. CRAFTING CHILDREN: MATERIALITY, SOCIAL MEMORY, AND THE REPRODUCTION OF TERMINAL CLASSIC HOUSE SOCIETIES IN THE ULUA VALLEY, HONDURAS; Jeanne Lopiparo; 7. The Marking of Age in Ancient Coastal Oaxaca; Stacie M. King; Part IV: Sacrifice, Violence, and the Sanctity of Children; 8. Child Martyrs and Murderous Children: Age and Agency in Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Religious Conflicts; Byron Ellsworth Hamann; 9. The Role of Children in the Ritual Practices of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan and the Great Temple of Tlatelolco; Juan Alberto Rom n Berrelleza and Ximena Ch vez Balderas; 10. The Child and the Childlike in Olmec Art and Archaeology; Billie Follensbee; Part V: Conclusion; 11. Where We All Begin: Archaeologies of Childhood in the Mesoamerican Past; Rosemary A. Joyce; Index