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The Architecture of Mohenjo-Daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Neighbourhoods.

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Title/Author:	The Architecture of Mohenjo-Daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Neighbourhoods./
Author:	Mosher, Matthew S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	400 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-07A.
Subject:	Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10256082
ISBN:	9780355452211

The Architecture of Mohenjo-Daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Neighbourhoods.
Mosher, Matthew S.

The Architecture of Mohenjo-Daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Neighbourhoods. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 400 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The Indus Civilization of South Asia (c.2600-1900 B.C.) is one of the earliest and most geographically extensive complex urban-based societies in the world. The near-standardized proportions of its architectural components, technically-elaborate pyrotechnologies, undeciphered writing system and, perhaps most famously, its elaborate networks of urban water management, are well known elements that attest to the highly ordered coherence of its civic culture. However, the basic means of urban organization in the Indus Civilization are poorly understood. This thesis attempts to address this lack of understanding by examining the architectural record of its largest and best-studied city, Mohenjo-Daro, for the foundational elements of urban society: neighbourhoods. Through the reanalysis of its original published reports created in the 1930s, this thesis reveals that much of the built environment of Mohenjo-Daro consists of a limited number of recurring building types, leading to the creation of the first functional architectural typology for the Indus Civilization. The distribution of these architectural types was used to identify the cores of distinct neighbourhoods in the city, locales typified by scaled-down replicas of Mohenjo-Daro's iconic buildings in its Upper Town. Anthropological theory concerned with spatiality, interaction, and identity in urban contexts was applied to examine the relationship between these separate neighbourhoods. While being united to one another in a broad program of stylistic symmetry ultimately tied to the corporate aesthetic of most Indus Civilization cultural expressions, the separate neighbourhoods of Mohenjo-Daro manipulated these same expressive practices to proclaim localized and distinct civic identities, and in so doing architecturally mimicked the tension between the centralizing forces of the Mohenjo-Daro state and the decentralizing tendencies of local manners of association. This balance between local community and larger polity is one of the defining elements of both urban neighbourhoods and complex societies generally. The revelation that Mohenjo-Daro was subject to these tendencies helps to clarify its internal urban organization, and allows for the Indus Civilization to be more firmly situated into comparative studies of urban and political processes.

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Archaeology.

The Architecture of Mohenjo-Daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Neighbourhoods.
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