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Total Pages : 891 pages
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Download or read book 50 años de estudios americanistas en la Universidad de Bonn written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Gullberg
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811281947
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Cultural Astronomy In Latin America written by Steven Gullberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique view of Astronomy in Culture, Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy involving ancient civilizations in Latin America, emphasizing scientific and cultural knowledge combined with historical, cognitive, archaeological and anthropological aspects. Topics covered in the book include different associations of ancient civilizations with the stars and planets, whether in farming, architecture, social organization, beliefs, myths, religion, metric systems, calendar construction, shrines, and variations in astronomical research methods based on the types of material evidence available. Special attention is paid to the war cycles associated with observed celestial events, day-counting calendars, including movements in the sky and written evidences from codices, and in particular the Andean and Inca traditions of astronomically associated shrines, caves and celestial alignments of monuments and temples.
Author : Eithne B. Carlin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173625
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas written by Eithne B. Carlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research from the Caribbean and Meso America, through Amazonia and the Andes to Argentina, ranging from historical comparative through descriptive and socio-linguistics to new discoveries in archaeological research.
Author : Lawrence Boudon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705357
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Social Sciences written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences
Author : Javaid Rahi
Publisher : Jammu and Kashmir Acacademy of Art, Culture , Languages , Jammu
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Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book The Gujjars Vol:05 Edited by Dr. Javaid Rahi -Book Series on Gujjar History and Culture written by Javaid Rahi and published by Jammu and Kashmir Acacademy of Art, Culture , Languages , Jammu . This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gujjars Vol: 05 by Dr. Javaid Rahi (Book Series on History & Culture of Gujjars) 'The Gujjars' is a book series that highlights the History of Gujjar Tribe besides their Cultural Heritage and Socio-Economic issues..
Author : Catherine Julien
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294117
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Reading Inca History written by Catherine Julien and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History,Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories. The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of Inca rulers. Rather than take for granted that there was an Inca historical consciousness, Julien begins by establishing an Inca purpose for keeping this dynastic genealogy. She then compares Spanish narratives of the Inca past to identify the structure of underlying Inca genres and establish the dependency on oral sources. Once the genealogical genre can be identified, the life histories can also be detected. By carefully studying the composition of Spanish narratives and their underlying sources, Julien provides an informed and convincing reading of these complex texts. By disentangling the sources of their meaning, she reaches across time, language, and cultural barriers to achieve a rewarding understanding of the dynamics of Inca and colonial political history.
Author : Sabine Dedenbach Salazar Sáenz
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ISBN 13 : 9783931419561
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (195 download)
Download or read book 50 años de estudios americanistas en la Universidad de Bonn written by Sabine Dedenbach Salazar Sáenz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beate Lohnert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429873247
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Coping with Changing Environments written by Beate Lohnert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. A collection of empirical research and theoretical reflection on the modelling of environmental change from a social perspective. The focus is on the endangered ecosystems in the developing world and examples are given from Asia, Africa and Latin America. After Regions at Risk (Kaspersons et al, 1995 UNO University Press) it is the second compilation that focuses on regional empirical evidence with regard to Global Environmental Change. On a national and European level, it gives an overview of regional studies coming from the first German Priority Programme on the Social Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. The introductory and concluding parts of the book reflect the strictly interdisciplinary approach of the research programme and form a step towards the understanding of human driving forces and responses to Global Change rooted in regional transformation processes. The book offers a source of information and theoretical guidelines for the newly evolving scientific community of Global Change Research; including teachers, politicians and anyone involved in social and environmental policy and planning.
Author : Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461505259
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prehistory written by Peter N. Peregrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.
Author : Duccio Bonavia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023033
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Maize written by Duccio Bonavia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize. Using a variety of scientific techniques, Duccio Bonavia explores the development of maize, its adaptation to varying climates, and its fundamental role in ancient American cultures. An appendix (by Alexander Grobman) provides the first ever comprehensive compilation of maize genetic data, correlating this data with the archaeological evidence presented throughout the book. This book provides a unique interpretation of questions of dating and evolution, supported by extensive data, following the spread of maize from South to North America, and eventually to Europe and beyond.
Author : Jeffrey R. Parsons
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703491
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru written by Jeffrey R. Parsons and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yumi Park Huntington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813052416
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Ceramics of Ancient America written by Yumi Park Huntington and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald
Author : Cynthia Kristan-Graham
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884023234
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Twin Tollans written by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.
Author : Martha G. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319523317
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Pottery, Livelihoods, and Landscapes written by Martha G. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolomé de los Olleros in Piura, Peru. Based on extensive interviews with potters and traders, it explains why the barter of pots continues to be practiced, and explores how pottery production and exchange practices may now be changing. The book provides a unique and detailed analysis of the interconnections between handicraft production, rural trade networks, and agriculture in an Andean context. Pots are mainly bartered for food crops within a non-monetary peasant economy distinct from the “conventional” market. This practice is an important food source for pottery traders; thus trader livelihoods are placed at the center of this qualitative study of pottery distribution. Of primary importance are: 1) the decision-making processes surrounding exchange activities, 2) how exchange choices produce distinct spatial patterns, and 3) how the marketing of pots impacts livelihoods.
Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111858984X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Geography and Ethnography written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
Author : Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783094265
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru written by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. The author studies the controversial High Academy of the Quechua Language (HAQL) in Peru, the efficacy of which has been questioned by some experts. The book delves into the positions, attitudes, ideologies and practices of the HAQL and the role it has played in language policy and planning in the Andean region. The author uses ethnographic fieldwork to support what was previously only anecdotal evidence from individuals viewing the Academy from the outside. This book would appeal to anyone studying the sociolinguistics of the Quechua language, as well as to those studying broader issues of Indigenous language policy and planning, maintenance and revitalization.
Author : Isabel Yaya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233873
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Two Faces of Inca History written by Isabel Yaya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, this book restores the pre-Hispanic voices embedded in the chronicles. It identifies two distinctive bodies of Inca oral traditions, each of which encloses a mutually conflicting representation of the past that, considered together, reproduces patterns of Cuzco’s moiety division. Building on this new insight, the author revisits dual representations in the cosmology and ritual calendar of the ruling elite. The result is a fresh contribution to ethnohistorical works that have explored native ways of constructing history.
