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Lower-class social and economic organization at Chan Chan
chan chan: andean desert city • Albuquerque • Published In 2010 • Pages: 145-175
By: Topic, John R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Starting from the proposition that the urban lower class is key to understanding pre-industrial cities, a model is constructed for the characteristics, organization, and orientation of the lower class in Chan Chan. An overview of the urban settlement pattern incorporates excavation data, with descriptions of rooms-on-platforms and SIAR (small irregularly agglutinated rooms), administrative features, barrios, the layouts of various households, workshops (some with an [i]arcón[/i], a type of U-shaped structure with bins), wells, and access patterns within the site. SIAR residents came from several different groups, including traders and [i]mit'a[/i] (corvée) laborers that formed a social class the author calls the urban proletariat. The urban residences of Chan Chan are compared with several rural ones. Photos of Chan Chan and some of the excavations are included here.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Community structure
- Classes
- Urban and rural life
- Household
- Archaeological excavation methods
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chimu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-524 BP (AD 900-1476)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chan Chan, Huanchaco, Trujillo province (Moche Valley), La Libertad, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- John R. Topic, Jr.
- For bibliographical references see document 18:[Moseley and Day] (2010, References)
- Reprint of 1982 copy
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80054567
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chanchán (Peru)