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Julia A. Hendon
Researcher at Gettysburg College
Publications - 36
Citations - 797
Julia A. Hendon is an academic researcher from Gettysburg College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Maya & Mesoamerica. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 36 publications receiving 744 citations. Previous affiliations of Julia A. Hendon include Harvard University.
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Having and Holding: Storage, Memory, Knowledge, and Social Relations
TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial and social meaning of utilitarian, household storage is investigated in a range of societies, including those of the Trobriand Islands, Neolithic Europe, and Mesoamerica.
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Status and Power in Classic Maya Society: An Archeological Study
TL;DR: In this article, archeological data was used to examine how social relations allocate economic and political power in ancient complex societies, and the socioeconomic organization of the basic residential group was reconstructed and the existence of a pervasive social hierarchy demonstrated.
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Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica
TL;DR: Hendon as mentioned in this paper examined 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, and demonstrated how everyday life becomes part of the social processes of remembering and forgetting, and how "memory communities" assert connections between the past and the present.
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Textile production as craft in Mesoamerica Time, labor and knowledge
TL;DR: Textile production in Mesoamerica has been seen as the full-time work of women but not as an occupational specialization as mentioned in this paper, which has been considered as a process and set of relationships.