Introduction : Mesoamerican domestic structures, compounds, and neighborhoods / Linda R. Manzanilla -- Ritual and social stratification at Monte Albán, Oaxaca : strategies from a household perspective / Ernesto González Licón -- Corporate life in apartment and barrio compounds at Teotihuacan, central Mexico : craft specialization, hierarchy, and ethnicity / Household, workshop, guild, and barrio : the organization of obsidian craft production in a prehispanic urban center / Kenneth G. Hirth -- Household, neighborhood, and urban structure in an "adobe city" : Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico / Dan M. Healan -- Tikal : evidence for ethnic diversity in a prehispanic lowland Maya state capital / Marshall Joseph Becker -- Maya home life : daily practice, politics, and society in Copan, Honduras / Julia A. Hendon -- Beyond capitals and kings : domestic organization and ethnic dynamics at Chac-Sayil, Yucatan / Michael P. Smyth -- Introduction to Andean examples / Claude Chapdelaine -- Residence and ritual in Tiwanaku : hierarchy, specialization, ethnicity, and ceremony / John W. Janusek -- Domestic life in and around the urban sector of the Huacas of Moche Site, Northern Peru / Huari : a new direction in central Andean urban evolution / William H. Isbell -- Domestic economy as political economy at Chan Chan, Peru / John R. Topic -- Domestic life and craft specialization in Inka Cusco and its rural hinterland / R. Alan Covey -- Understanding houses, compounds, and neighborhoods / Joyce Marcus