Hinterland households : rural agrarian household diversity in northwest Honduras / John G. Douglass.

Author
Douglass, John G., 1968- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2002.
  • Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2002]
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) : illustrations, maps.

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Available Online

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Summary note
The rural sector of agrarian societies has historically been viewed as composed of undifferentiated households primarily interested in self-sufficiency. In more recent times, households have been seen as more diverse than previously thought, both internally (within a single, cooperative unit) and comparatively, but they are still poorly understood. In Hinterland Households, John G. Douglass lays out a new understanding of rural households by investigating the basis of diversity and differentiation as well as the sources for variations in household wealth, production, and size in pre-Colonial Central America. Through the analysis of Late Classic (600-950 a.d.) household sites located in the Naco Valley of northwest Honduras, Douglass tests four competing models of household wealth and production. He evaluates the basis and relative importance of rural household diversity as it relates to social complexity, rural/urban interactions between the center and periphery of Late Classic culture, and access to natural resources.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-187) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2018).
ISBN
  • 0870816985 (electronic book)
  • 9780870816987 (electronic book)
LCCN
2002001842
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