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Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Middle American Research Records, 1951
Author: Middle American Research Records
Author: Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Author: Victoria Reifler BrickerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
The Chains of Interdependence
Author: Michael KrennPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315479435
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This work examines the development of the ideas behind the theory of interdependent economic, political and military relations with the nations of Central America. It considers how policy-makers defined interdependence and how they went about accomplishing their goals.
Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Author: William B. TaylorPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804765634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. In examining the character of village uprisings, typical relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair. Landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole, and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not political reasons. Only when new Spanish encroachments threatened their lands and livelihoods did their grievances flare up in rebellion, and these occasions were numerous but brief. The author bolsters his conclusions with illuminating comparisons with other peasant societies.
New World Prehistory
Author: Middle American Anthropology
Author: Gordon Randolph WilleyPublisher:
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Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Ancient Oaxaca
Author: John PaddockPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804701709
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Author: Robert WauchopePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477306684
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Social Anthropology is the sixth volume in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Manning Nash (1924–2001), Professor of Anthropology at the Center for Study of Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago. This volume provides a synthetic and comparative summary of native ethnography and ethnology of Mexico and Central America, written by authorities in a number of broad fields: the native population and its identification, agricultural systems and food patterns, economies, crafts, fine arts, kinship and family, compadrinazgo, local and territorial units, political and religious organizations, levels of communal relations, annual and fiesta cycles, sickness, folklore, religion, mythology, psychological orientations, ethnic relationships, and topics of especial modern significance such as acculturation, nationalization, directed change, urbanization and industrialization. The articles rely on the accumulated ethnography of the region, but instead of being essentially historical in treatment, they aim toward generalizations about the uniformities and varieties of culture, society, and personality found in Middle America. The collection is an invaluable reference work on Middle America and a provocative guide to scholars engaged in furthering understanding of humans and society. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.