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Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Black-man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (237 download)
Download or read book The Black-man of Zinacantan written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah C. Blaffer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292769849
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Black-Man of Zinacantan written by Sarah C. Blaffer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this work is anomalies—those things that are between one state and another, neither dead nor alive, neither animal nor human. In this instance, they are the "spooks" (espantos) that inhabit the Maya area: the charcoal-cruncher, a disembodied head that goes off into the night to eat charcoal; the characotels, men who have turned into animals in order to steal chickens; and others. The victims chosen by spooks are likewise between two states: they are caught while asleep or drunk; or they may be humans who ignore social conventions and behave in "un-human" manner. The Black-man of Zinacantan focuses on a small, super-sexed demon who possesses a six-foot-long, death-dealing penis and a penchant for mischief-making. This demon is known in Highland Chiapas as h'ik'al, the Black-man. Although h'ik'al's prototype may have been the bat deity, an ancient Maya god of sacrifice, the demon has been adapted to contemporary life. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies and shows h'ik'al as a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter, who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. The data for the study was recorded in Zinacantan, a Tzotzil-speaking Maya community, and in other Maya towns in southern Mexico and Guatemala; the study includes an analysis of tales recorded and translated by Robert M. Laughlin. The drawings that decorate the text were adapted by Virginia Savage and Joseph Barbieri. Besides being a comprehensive treatment of Maya demonology, the book demonstrates the newer approaches in comparative mythology of Claude Lévi-Strauss and others.
Author : Sarah C. Blaffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Black-Man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend; Including an Analysis of Tales Recorded and Translated by Robert M. Laughlin, by Sarah C. Blaffer written by Sarah C. Blaffer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah C. Blaffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The black-man of Zinacantan written by Sarah C. Blaffer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Black-man of Zinacantan, a Central American Legend written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert V. Kemper
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759101944
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Chronicling Cultures written by Robert V. Kemper and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of methods used in long-term anthropological field projects, some extending over half a century. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292791747
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single 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 elected to be general editor. This third volume of the Supplement is devoted to the aboriginal literatures of Mesoamerica, a topic receiving little attention in the original Handbook. According to the general editor, "This volume does more than supplement and update the coverage of Middle American Indian literatures in the Handbook. It breaks new ground by defining the parameters of a new interdisciplinary field in Middle American Indian studies." The aim of the present volume is to consider literature from five Middle American Indian languages: Nahuatl, Yucatecan Maya, Quiche, Tzotzil, and Chorti. The first three literatures are well documented for both the Classical and Modern variants of their languages and are obvious candidates for inclusion in this volume. The literatures of Tzotzil and Chorti, on the other hand, are oral, and heretofore little has been written of their genres and styles. Taken together, these essays represent a substantial contribution to the Handbook series, with the volume editor's introduction placing in geographic perspective the five literatures chosen as representative of the Middle American literary tradition.
Author : Munro S. Edmonson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292775938
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3 written by Munro S. Edmonson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected References, in English, on the Ethnology of the Indians of Mexico, Central and South America written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Kellogg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198040422
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Weaving the Past written by Susan Kellogg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics. Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices, newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions. Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical force behind the more important events and processes of Latin America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America. Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to, even supporting, family and community well-being.
Author : Robert Hinshaw
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311080929X
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Currents in Anthropology written by Robert Hinshaw and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilber A. Chaffee
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822304296
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956-1975 written by Wilber A. Chaffee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecelia F. Klein
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022794
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Gender in Pre-Hispanic America written by Cecelia F. Klein and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its authors and readers alike. The consideration of the role of gender in our daily lives, including in our professions, becomes inescapable when reading this book. It is not simply a question of men's roles having been possibly overemphasized and overstudied to the detriment of women's. The fact that genders, as opposed to sexes, are socially constructed categories focuses our attention on the ways in which these and other social constructs have shaped our present understanding of the past and informed past peoples' understand of their present. In various articles in this book, the reader will not find unanimity in what is meant by "gender" or how to go about studying it. What will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351624814
Total Pages : 4340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Rural History written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 4340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.
Author : Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351722719
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico written by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the dependency paradigm, to the historical structuralism of the 1970s. This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico, and discusses in stimulating terms the theoretical and empirical difficulties of the profession of anthropology itself.
Author : Nancy Gonlin
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326787
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of the Night written by Nancy Gonlin and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient peoples experience, view, and portray the night? What was it like to live in the past when total nocturnal darkness was the norm? Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant models of daily ancient life. A diverse team of experienced scholars uses a variety of methods and resources to reconstruct how ancient peoples navigated the night and what their associated daily—and nightly—practices were. This collection challenges modern ideas and misconceptions regarding the night and what darkness and night symbolized in the ancient world, and it highlights the inherent research bias in favor of “daytime” archaeology. Numerous case studies from around the world (including Oman, Mesoamerica, Scandinavia, Rome, Great Zimbabwe, Indus Valley, Peru, and Cahokia) illuminate subversive, social, ritual, domestic, and work activities, such as witchcraft, ceremonies, feasting, sleeping, nocturnal agriculture, and much more. Were there artifacts particularly associated with the night? Authors investigate individuals and groups (both real and mythological) who share a special connection to nighttime life. Reconsidering the archaeological record, Archaeology of the Night views sites, artifacts, features, and cultures from a unique perspective. This book is relevant to anthropologists and archaeologists and also to scholars of human geography, history, astronomy, sensory studies, human biology, folklore, and mythology. Contributors: Susan Alt, Anthony F. Aveni, Jane Eva Baxter, Shadreck Chirikure, Minette Church, Jeremy D. Coltman, Margaret Conkey, Tom Dillehay, Christine C. Dixon, Zenobie Garrett, Nancy Gonlin, Kathryn Kamp, Erin Halstad McGuire, Abigail Joy Moffett, Jerry D. Moore, Smiti Nathan, April Nowell, Scott C. Smith, Glenn R. Storey, Meghan Strong, Cynthia Van Gilder, Alexei Vranich, John C. Whittaker, Rita Wright
