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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnoarchaeology in the Maya Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Donne Bryant
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Total Pages : 303 pages
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Download or read book Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnoarchaeology in the Maya Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico written by Douglas Donne Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Donne Bryant
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ISBN 13 : 9781949847147
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnoarchaeology in the Maya Highlands of Chiapas written by Douglas Donne Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines three distinct Papers based on work in the Central Highlands of Chiapa. Paper 54 presents the excavation of a large house mound and associated terrace structures at the Late Classic site of Yerba Buena. In Paper 55 Edward Calnek offers the ethnohistory of the Chiapas Highland Maya before the Spanish Conquest, with an appendix of Tzetzal-Spanish words of Copanaguastla from Domingo de Ara's Vocabulario (with English translation) done by Mario Humberto Ruz. Paper 56 presents the findings of the Coxoh Ethnoarchaeology Project, an examination of modern Maya households designed to complement excavations at the Postclassic site of Coapa. Published by New World Archaeological Foundation.
Author : Thomas A. Lee
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Ethnoarchaeology Among the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico written by Thomas A. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Hammond
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029274109X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory written by Norman Hammond and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections. The first of these deals with the application of theory, both anthropological and historical, to the great civilization of the Classic Maya, which flourished in the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize during the first millennium A.D. The structural remains of the Classic Period have impressed travelers and archaeologists for over a century, and aspects of the development and decline of this strange and brilliant tropical forest culture are examined here in the light of archaeological research. The second section presents the results of field research ranging from the Highlands of Mexico east to Honduras and north into the Lowland heart of Maya civilization, and iconographic study of excavated material. The third section covers the ethnohistoric approach to archaeology, the conjunction of material and documentary evidence. Early European documents are used to illuminate historic Maya culture. This section includes transcriptions of previously unpublished archival material. Although not formally linked beyond their common field of inquiry, the essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of some of the leading scholars in the field.
Author : Joel W. Palka
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ISBN 13 : 9780813028163
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Unconquered Lacandon Maya written by Joel W. Palka and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, explorers stumbled upon two unexpected discoveries in the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico: a treasure of well-preserved Classic Maya murals and a thriving society of indigenous Maya peoples living in the lowland rainforest. Over subsequent decades, these Lacandon Maya were assumed to be the direct descendants of the Classic Maya, who created the spectacular temples and monumental art of the region. As impressive as this lineage may be, Joel Palka argues that many scholars have romanticized it at the expense of documenting the substantive social changes the Lacandon experienced after the Spanish Colonial Period. The Lacandon are unique among the Maya of Mesoamerica because they remained free while others were conquered; the Lacandon Maya were the only Maya people never completely colonized by Spain, which led to specific cultural adaptations to contact. Using new cultural, historical, and archeological evidence, Palka offers the most comprehensive and balanced study of the Lacandon to date. His groundbreakingargument is that other Maya, and not just the Spanish, brought extensive changes to the Lacandon way of life. The unearthing of neglected areas of Lacandon ethnohistory, the synthesis of data from archival and ethnographic studies, and the addition of compelling archaeological information from newly discovered sites all add to this complete and richly elucidated treatise of Lacandon cultural change. Palka's study is a fine and significant contribution to the story of the Lacandon Maya and is of interest to archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists of the Maya and Mesoamerica as a whole.
Author : Christine Eber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789327
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town written by Christine Eber and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community. In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. She explores various personal and social strategies women use to avoid problem drinking, including conversion to Protestant religions, membership in cooperatives or Catholic Action, and modification of ritual forms with substitute beverages. The book’s women-centered perspective reveals important data on women and drinking not reported in earlier ethnographies of Highland Chiapas communities. Eber’s reflexive approach, blending the women’s stories, analyses, songs, and prayers with her own and other ethnographers’ views, shows how Western, individualistic approaches to the problems of alcohol abuse are inadequate for understanding women’s experiences with problem and ritual drinking in a non-Western culture. In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the Zapatista uprising, have strengthened women's resolve to gain greater control over their lives by controlling the effects of alcohol in the community.
Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : Society Amer Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780932839060
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Structure of Material Systems written by Brian Hayden and published by Society Amer Archaeology. This book was released on 1984 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kasey Diserens Morgan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646422848
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands written by Kasey Diserens Morgan and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces. These include shifting power dynamics and sociocultural transformations, tumultuous political regimes, the precarity of newly formed nation states, migration in search of refuge, and newly globalizing economies in the Yucatecan lowlands in the Late Colonial to Early National periods—the times when formal Spanish colonial rule was giving way to Yucatecan and Mexican neocolonial settler systems. The work takes a hemispheric approach to the historical and material analysis of colonialism, bridging the often disparate literatures on coloniality and settler colonialism. Archaeologists and anthropologists working in what are today southeastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras grapple with the material realities of coloniality at a regional level. They provide sustained discussions of Maya experiences with wide-ranging colonial endurances: violence, resource insecurity, land rights, refugees, the control of borders, the movement of contraband, surveillance, individual and collective agency, consumption, and use of historic resources. Considering a future for historical archaeologies of the Maya region that bridges anthropology, ethnohistory, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and Latin American studies, Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands presents a new understanding of how ways of being in the Maya world have formed and changed over time, as well as the shared investments of historical archaeologists and sociocultural anthropologists working in the Maya region. Contributors: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Alejandra Badillo Sánchez, Adolfo Iván Batún Alpuche, A. Brooke Bonorden, Maia C. Dedrick, Scott L. Fedick, Fior García Lara, John Gust, Brett A. Houk, Rosemary A. Joyce, Gertrude B. Kilgore, Jennifer P. Mathews, Patricia A. McAnany, James W. Meierhoff, Fabián A. Olán de la Cruz, Julie K. Wesp
Author : Michael Deal
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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the Central Maya Highlands written by Michael Deal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws upon both archaeological and ethnographic techniques to study prehistoric cultural change, village ethnoarchaeology focuses on a range of archaeological problems at the village or household level-including the important socioeconomic role of specific craft activities. In this context, recent studies of contemporary pottery making-follow trends in ethnoarchaeology involving model building, formation processes, and evaluation and refinement of existing archaeological recovery techniques.
Author : Susan Kepecs
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826337399
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Postclassic to Spanish-era Transition in Mesoamerica written by Susan Kepecs and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and archaeological analysis of native and Spanish interactions in Mesoamerica and how each culture impacted the other.
Author : Justine M. Shaw
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348645
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Maya of the Cochuah Region written by Justine M. Shaw and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.
Author : John D. Monaghan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292708815
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6 written by John D. Monaghan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of scholars over the last several decades. They examine how research agendas have developed in relationship to broader interests in the field and the ways in which the anthropology of the region has responded to the sociopolitical and economic policies of Mexico and Guatemala. Most importantly, they focus on the changing conditions of life of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. This volume offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years.
Author : Barbara W. Edmonson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029279178X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6 written by Barbara W. Edmonson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest. Supplements devoted to Archaeology, Linguistics, Literatures, Ethnohistory, and Epigraphy have appeared to date. In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades. They examine how research agendas have developed in relationship to broader interests in the field and the ways in which the anthropology of the region has responded to the sociopolitical and economic policies of Mexico and Guatemala. Most importantly, they focus on the changing conditions of life of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. This volume thus offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years.
Author : Claudia García-Des Lauriers
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ISBN 13 : 9781607815044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica written by Claudia García-Des Lauriers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific coast and southern highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala is a region significant to debates about the origins of social complexity, interaction, and colonialism. The area, however, has received uneven attention and much of what we know is largely restricted to the Preclassic period. This theoretically eclectic volume presents greater temporal coverage, is geographically unified, and engages some of the most important questions of each period through a discussion of the archaeology of identity. Chapters range from traditional assessments of identity to discussion of practice and relational personhood; all share a concern for how archaeology and ethnohistory provide opportunities and challenges in the reconstruction of identities. The region is one with a multifaceted history of interactions between local populations and those from other parts of Mesoamerica. Linguistic diversity, landscape, and artistic representations have added to the complexities of understanding identity formation here. Rather than providing a unified voice on the issues, Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica is a dialogue presented through case studies, one that will hopefully encourage future research in this complex and little understood region of Mesoamerica.
Author : C Roger Nance
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ISBN 13 : 9780813080673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché written by C Roger Nance and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the history of Iximche, the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in highland Guatemala, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical information.
Author : Jon C. Lohse
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778147
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Commoners written by Jon C. Lohse and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and status. But what do we know of the common folk who labored to build the temple complexes and palaces and grew the food that fed all of Maya society? This pathfinding book marshals a wide array of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence to offer the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners. Senior and emerging scholars contribute case studies that examine such aspects of commoner life as settlement patterns, household organization, and subsistence practices. Their reports cover most of the Maya area and the entire time span from Preclassic to Postclassic. This broad range of data helps resolve Maya commoners from a faceless mass into individual actors who successfully adapted to their social environment and who also held primary responsibility for producing the food and many other goods on which the whole Maya society depended.
