Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Ethnology

Barbara W. Edmonson

Published by University of Texas Press 2000

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6

Ethnology

Barbara W. Edmonson
Edited by: Victoria Reifler Bricker and John D. Monaghan

https://doi.org/10.7560/708815

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About this book

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.

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Victoria R. Bricker is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Tulane University. John D. Monaghan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
General Editor’s Preface Victoria Reifler Bricker Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. A Retrospective Look at the Ethnology Volumes of the Handbook of Middle American Indians John D. Monaghan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Topical Syntheses
2. Mesoamerican Social Organization and Community after 1960 Eileen M. Mulhare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. Theology and History in the Study of Mesoamerican Religions John D. Monaghan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
4. Alternative Political Futures of Indigenous People in Mesoamerica Howard Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
II. Regional Syntheses
5. Otomían and Purépechan Cultures of Central Mexico James W. Dow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
6. Contemporary Cultures of the Gulf Coast Alan R. Sandstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
7. Indigenous Peoples in Central and Western Mexico Catharine Good Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
8. Thirty Years of Oaxacan Ethnography John D. Monaghan and Jeffrey H. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
9. The Maya of Chiapas since 1965 Ulrich Köhler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
10. The Yucatec Maya Paul Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
11. Maya and Anthropologists in the Highlands of Guatemala since the 1960’s John M. Watanabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 350

eBook

Published: December 15, 2014
ISBN: 9780292753747