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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica

Autor: Susan Milbrath , Elizabeth Baquedano

Número de Páginas: 441

Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica. Representations of animal deities in Mesoamerica can be traced back at least to Middle Preclassic Olmec murals, stone carvings, and portable art such as lapidary work and ceramics. Throughout the history of Mesoamerica real animals were merged with fantastical creatures, creating zoological oddities not unlike medieval European bestiaries. According to Spanish chroniclers, the Aztec emperor was known to keep exotic animals in royal aviaries and zoos. The Postclassic period was characterized by an iconography that was shared from central Mexico to the Yucatan peninsula and south to Belize. In addition to highlighting the symbolic importance of nonhuman creatures in general, the volume focuses on the importance of the calendrical and astronomical symbolism associated with animals and birds. Inspired by and dedicated to the work of Mesoamerican scholar Cecelia Klein and featuring imagery from painted books, monumental sculpture, portable...

Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico

Autor: Gérald Migeon

Número de Páginas: 155

Presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realized within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III, studying of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region.

El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico

Autor: Marion Forest

Número de Páginas: 314

11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896–1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012–2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.

Dinámicas culturales entre el Occidente, el Centro-Norte y la cuenca de México, del Preclásico al Epiclásico

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 246

El tema de las dinámicas culturales ha experimentado un desarrollo importante durante los últimos años dentro de la arqueología mesoamericana. Apoyándose a la vez sobre el mejoramiento de los conocimientos acerca de los contenidos culturales de las diferentes entidades, como de sus evoluciones diacrónicas, y gracias a una renovación de los acercamientos teóricos, el estudio de relaciones tan diversas como el comercio y el abastecimiento en materias primas, los intercambios a nivel de la ideología y la circulación de de las ideas, hasta las migraciones de grupos humanos, de nueva cuenta ha vuelto a ser tema de actualidad. Es en particular el caso de las relaciones complejas que se han establecido entre el occidente, el centro-norte, el noroccidente y la cuenca central, que encuentran así nuevas oportunidades de interpretación. E s t e volumen se propone revisar algunos aspectos de estas dinámicas culturales entre el Preclásico y el Epiclásico, a raiz de las investigaciones recientes. Se examinan sucesivamente el periodo Preclásico, c o n contribuciones sobre El Opeño, la cultura de las tumbas de tiro, la cultura Chupicuaro y la cuenca de México, el periodo...

Iconografía mexicana XI

Autor: Beatriz Barba Ahuatzin , Alejandro Mayagoitia , Arturo R. Lobato , Fernando Muñoz Altea , Salvador Cárdenas Gutiérrez , María Estela Muñoz Espinosa , Alejandro Alí Cruz Muñoz , Gonzalo Obregón , Enrique Tovar Esquivel , América Malbrán Porto , Adriana Garza Luna , Fermín Alí Cruz Muñoz , Luis Arturo Sánchez Domínguez , Beatriz Barba Ahuatzin , José De Jesús Alberto Cravioto Rubí , Naoli Victoria Lona

Número de Páginas: 344

Este libro analiza, estudia y explica el significado de imágenes y figuras de los escudos los estados de la República Mexicana y su historia, los significados de dos altorrelieves —el del templo de San Hipólito y el de la Catedral de Monterrey—, y el uso de los símbolos patrios en viñetas publicitarias.

La Arqueologia de los Animales de Mesoamerica

Autor: Kitty F. Emery , Christopher M. Gotz

Número de Páginas: 829

El reconocimiento del papel de los animales en las antiguas dietas, en las economias, politicas y los rituales, es vital para poder entender a las culturas del pasado en su totalidad. Por el otro lado, seguir las claves que se obtienen de restos de animales preteritos puede aproximarnos a entender la antigua relacion que existia entre los humanos y el mundo que les rodeaba. En respuesta a un creciente interes en el campo de la zooarqueologia, este libro presenta investigaciones que representan a las multiples culturas y regiones de Mesoamerica, tratando especificamente los aspectos mas recurrentes en la literatura zooarqueologica. Desde el punto de vista geografico, los ensayos reunidos aqui informan acerca del uso de animals por parte de los pueblos indigenas de toda el area mesoamericana, ubicada entre los confines nortenos de Mexico y la frontera sur, en Centroamerica. Esto incluye culturas tan diversas como los olmecas, mayas, mixtecos, zapotecos e indigenas de Centroamerica. El marco temporal del libro se extiende desde el Preclasico y Clasico, sobre el Posclasico, los tiempos coloniales e historicos, hasta la epoca actual. Los capitulos del libro, escritos por expertos en la ...

Iconografía mexicana VII

Autor: Adriana Mondragón Vázquez , Beatriz Barba Ahuatzin , Carlos Rincón Mautner , Eduardo Corona Sánchez , Eduardo Merlo Juárez , Enrique Tovar Esquivel , Francisco Rivas Castro , Jorge Angulo Villaseñor , José De Jesús Alberto Cravioto Rubí , Julia Santa Cruz Vargas , Luis Alberto Martos L. , María Del Carmen Lechuga García , María J. Rodríguez-shadow , María Teresa Sepúlveda Y Herrera , Noemí Castillo Tejero , Sonia E. Rivero Torres

Número de Páginas: 359

Se busca enriquecer las interpretaciones iconográficas conocidas del Paleolítico hasta las efigies marianas de la época novohispana, pasando por las deidas mexicanas.

Arquitectura y Arqueología

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 148

Ponencias y contribuciones de reconocidos investigadores del área maya norte que intercambiaron reflexiones acerca de los estilos arquitectónicos de las zonas Río Bec, Chenes y Puuc ; así como cronología, estratigrafía o seriaciones arqueológicas.

COLOQUIOS ESPIRITUALES Y SACRAMENTALES DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ DE ESLAVA

Autor: Lorente Medina, Antonio

Número de Páginas: 404

En el estudio preliminar de esta edición se ofrece una visión renovada de la vida de Fernán González de Eslava, el dramaturgo más importante de América en el siglo XVI, y se alumbran los variados problemas que plantean sus Coloquios espirituales y sacramentales (de título, ecdóticos, cronológicos y contextuales). Asimismo, se muestra que los abundantes mensajes político-religiosos que encierra su corpus dramático -trufado de paremiología, poesía popular y romances contrafacteados- se integran completamente en el ámbito espiritual de la Contrarreforma Novohispana.

Iconografía mexicana

Autor: Beatriz Barba De Piña Chán

Número de Páginas: 208

"Sta es una más de las publicaciones del Seminario Permanente de Iconografía, caracterizadas por la alta calidad de los artículos que la forman y la especialización de los investigadores que presentan trabajos. Se trata ahora de un tema apasionante, el análisis de los signos con los que se representan los cuerpos celestes en la época prehispánica y en la Colonia. Angulo, Barba, Piña Chán, González Torres, Sepúlveda, Rivas, Lechuga, Castillo, Blanco, Cedillo, Durán, Treviño, Zimbrón, Torres Rodriguez, Haupt, Baños, Guzman Matadamas, Tinajero, Ochenterena, Herrera Moreno y Peralta son los que aquí presentan estudios, trabajaron sobre códices, bajorrelieves, esculturas y pinturas de aproximadamente 21 siglos de la historia de México. Venus, el Sol, las estrellas, constelaciones especiales y la Luna son observados y analizados en las diferentes formas en que fueron representados. Su valor estético, su importancia cultural y su proyección histórica también se encuentran discutidos y analizados en las paginas de este libro."--

Serie Anales de la Reunión Anual de Etnología

Número de Páginas: 820

Animal Matter

Autor: Nawa Sugiyama

Número de Páginas: 282

Animal Matter uses primary excavation, zooarchaeological, and isotope data from the study of nearly 200 jaguars, pumas, wolves, rattlesnakes, and golden eagles that were sacrificed or offered to the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan, 1-550 AD, to take readers on a journey through the complex entanglements of ritual performances that were part of the process of sovereignty for this ancient city.

Ancient Foodways

Autor: C. Margaret Scarry , Dale L. Hutchinson , Benjamin S. Arbuckle

Número de Páginas: 372

Society for Ethnobotany Daniel F. Austin Award How archaeology can shed light on past foodways and social worlds Through various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual. Spanning four continents and several millennia of human history, this volume is a comprehensive and contemporary survey of how archaeological data can be used to interpret past foodways and reconstruct past social worlds.  This volume is organized around four major themes: feasting and politics; sacrifice, ritual, and ancestors; diet, landscape, and health; and integrative methods. Contributors weave together multiple threads of evidence relating to plants, animals, craft production, and human health and reconnect the material remnants with behaviors, practices, and meanings. The case studies show the varied and creative ways that multiple sources of evidence can be used to shed light on past foodways.  Ancient Foodways demonstrates how environmental and cultural factors shaped past...

Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands

Autor: Kasey Diserens Morgan , Tiffany C. Fryer

Número de Páginas: 303

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...

Migrations in Late Mesoamerica

Autor: Christopher S. Beekman

Número de Páginas: 401

Bringing the often-neglected topic of migration to the forefront of ancient Mesoamerican studies, this volume uses an illuminating multidisciplinary approach to address the role of population movements in Mexico and Central America from AD 500 to 1500, the tumultuous centuries before European contact. Clarifying what has to date been chiefly speculation, researchers from the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, and art history delve deeply into the causes and impacts of prehistoric migration in the region. They draw on evidence including records of the Nahuatl language, murals painted at the Cacaxtla polity, ceramics in the style known as Coyotlatelco, skeletal samples from multiple sites, and conquest-era accounts of the origins of the Chichén Itzá Maya from both Native and Spanish scribes. The diverse datasets in this volume help reveal the choices and priorities of migrants during times of political, economic, and social changes that unmoored populations from ancestral lands. Migrations in Late Mesoamerica shows how migration patterns are vitally important to study due to their connection to environmental and political disruption in both...

Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica

Autor: Rubén G. Mendoza

Número de Páginas: 530

Bridging the Gaps

Autor: Danny Zborover , Peter Kroefges

Número de Páginas: 441

Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompassing several of the longest-enduring literate societies in the world. Fourteen case studies from an interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and art historians consciously compare and contrast changes and continuities in material culture before and after the Spanish conquest, in Prehispanic and Colonial documents, and in oral traditions rooted in the present but reflecting upon the deep past. Contributors consider both indigenous and European perspectives while exposing and addressing the difficulties that arise from the application of this conjunctive approach. Inspired by the late Dr. Bruce E. Byland’s work in the Mixteca, which exemplified the union of archaeological and historical evidence and inspired new generations of scholars, Bridging the Gaps promotes the practice of integrative studies to explore the complex intersections between social organization and political alliances, religion and...

The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals

Autor: Kitty F. Emery , Christopher M. Gotz

Número de Páginas: 809

Recognition of the role of animals in ancient diet, economy, politics, and ritual is vital to understanding ancient cultures fully, while following the clues available from animal remains in reconstructing environments is vital to understanding the ancient relationship between humans and the world around them. In response to the growing interest in the field of zooarchaeology, this volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. Geographically, the essays collected here index the different aspects of animal use by the indigenous populations of the entire area between the northern borders of Mexico and the southern borders of lower Central America. This includes such diverse cultures as the north Mexican hunter-gatherers, the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Central American Indians. The time frame of the volume extends from the earliest human occupation, the Preclassic, Classic, Postclassic, and Colonial manifestations, to recent times. The book's chapters, written by experts in the field of Mesoamerican zooarchaeology, provide important general background ...

Quintana Roo Archaeology

Autor: Justine M. Shaw , Jennifer P. Mathews

Número de Páginas: 315

Mexico’s southern state of Quintana Roo is often perceived by archaeologists as a blank spot on the map of the Maya world, a region generally assumed to hold little of interest thanks to its relative isolation from the rest of Mexico. But salvage archaeology required by recent development along the “Maya Riviera,” along with a suite of other ongoing and recent research projects, have shown that the region was critical in connecting coastal and inland zones, and it is now viewed as an important area in its own right from Preclassic through post-contact times. The first volume devoted to the archaeology of Quintana Roo, this book reveals a long tradition of exploration and discovery in the region and an increasingly rich recent history of study. Covering a time span from the Formative period through the early twentieth century, it offers a sampling of recent and ongoing research by Mexican, North American, and European archaeologists. Each of the chapters helps to integrate sites within and beyond the borders of the modern state, inviting readers to consider Quintana Roo as part of an interacting Maya world whose boundaries were entirely different from today’s. In taking in...

Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay

Autor: Debra S. Walker

Número de Páginas: 380

"Brings novel, synthetic insight to understanding a region that was a hub of waterborne trade and an important locus of production for some of the Maya’s most valued crops."--Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan "This one of a kind volume shows us how important this region was to the ancient Maya with detailed and vivid descriptions of sociopolitical and economic organization and their relation to the unique landscape and geography of Chetumal Bay."--Laura J. Kosakowsky, author of Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize Chetumal Bay is central to discussions of ancient Maya politics, warfare, economy, exchange and communication because of its unique location. Although the ancient Maya invested prodigious amounts of labor in the construction of road systems called sacbeob for communication and trade, recent archaeological discoveries around Chetumal Bay in both Belize and Mexico reveal an economic alternative to these roads: an extensive network of riverine and maritime waterways. Focusing on sites ringing the bay such as Cerro Maya, Oxtankah, and Santa Rita Corozal, the contributors to this volume explore how the bay and its feeder rivers...

The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico

Autor: Heather J. H. Edgar , Cathy Willermet

Número de Páginas: 295

Examining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populations The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the response to European colonization, providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change. Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars’ work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the castas system—which the colonizers used to organize society according to parentage and the social construction of race—on individuals’ and groups’ access to power, social mobility, health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly understood extent that this system—and the national identity of mestizaje that replaced it—caused inequality and the structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well...

Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica

Autor: Rani T. Alexander , Susan Kepecs

Número de Páginas: 449

This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its unique capacity to link local practices to global processes. To fill this gap, the authors weigh the material manifestations of the colonial and postcolonial trajectory in light of local, regional, and global historical processes that have unfolded over the last five hundred years. Research on a suite of issues—economic history, production of commodities, agrarian change, resistance, religious shifts, and sociocultural identity—demonstrates that the often shocking patterns observed today are historically contingent and culturally mediated, and therefore explainable. This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.

Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico

Autor: Jonathan Benzion

Número de Páginas: 261

This study presents a contrasting hypothesis concerning the genesis and development of Islam in Mexico than the one generally held across academic spheres and current historiography. It demonstrates that Colonial and Early Independent Mexico and Islam may have as well known about the existence of each other. However, within the chronological framework in which the Viceroyalty of Nueva España lived and developed there were social hindrance, geopolitical imperatives and theological impediments and cosmovisions – in both sides of the Atlantic – that created the quasi– perfect circumstances for the Islamic tradition and Mexico not to really meet. This book provides new angles of study on the theme, and with it, new historiographical approaches.

Mesoamerican Memory

Autor: Stephanie Wood , Amos Megged

Número de Páginas: 330

Euro-Americans see the Spanish conquest as the main event in the five-century history of Mesoamerica, but the people who lived there before contact never gave up their own cultures. Both before and after conquest, indigenous scribes recorded their communities’ histories and belief systems, as well as the events of conquest and its effects and aftermath. Today, the descendants of those native historians in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala still remember their ancestors’ stories. In Mesoamerican Memory, volume editors Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood have gathered the latest scholarship from contributors around the world to compare these various memories and explore how they were preserved and altered over time. Rather than dividing Mesoamerica’s past into pre-contact, colonial, and modern periods, the essays in this volume emphasize continuity from the pre-conquest era to the present, underscoring the ongoing importance of indigenous texts in creating and preserving community identity, history, and memory. In addition to Nahua and Maya recollections, contributors examine the indigenous traditions of Mixtec, Zapotec, Tarascan, and Totonac peoples. Close analysis of pictorial and...

Social Sciences

Autor: Lawrence Boudon , Katherine D. Mccann

Número de Páginas: 998

"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...

Estudio de los cánidos arqueológicos del México prehispánico

Autor: Alicia Blanco Padilla , Bernardo Rodríguez Galicia , Raúl Valadez Azúa

Número de Páginas: 276

Los sueños y los días

Autor: Miguel Bartolomé , Alicia Barabás , Claudia Jean Harris , Marco Vinicio Morales , Ana Paula Pintado , María De Guadalupe Fernández , Erica Merino , Hugo Eduardo López , Jesús Jáuregui , Laura Magriña , Ricardo Claudio Pacheco , Antonio Reyes , Andrés Oseguera

Número de Páginas: 320

El chamanismo, el nahualismo y el viaje onírico, instrumentos para vincular dos o más realidades. Éstas son capacidades que pueden coincidir o no en un mismo individuo, pero que constituyen nociones culturales vinculadas dentro de una misma esfera conceptual. En las tradiciones indígenas de México el sueño coexiste con el trance, y los chamanes locales lo utilizan para acceder a un espacio-tiempo alterno, ya que el chamanismo se basa en una teoría de la comunicación entre dos mundos. Temas como estos estuvieron dentro del proyecto Etnografía de los Pueblos Indígenas de México en el Nuevo Milenio.

Coba, Quintana Roo

Autor: Linda Manzanilla

Número de Páginas: 456

Iconografía mexicana V

Número de Páginas: 314

"La vida, la muerte y la transfiguración son fenómenos que han preocupado a todas las culturas a lo largo de la historia, la muerte se representa con dibujos de esqueletos, la vida por lo regular con vegetales, animales y corazones humanos, pero la transfiguración es un proceso que no a todos ocupa y mucho menos pintan. Diferentes autores analizan la manera en que el mexicano se ha expresado plásticamente a lo largo de la historia desde el México prehispánico hasta el contemporáneo."--

Arqueología

Número de Páginas: 208

Foros de salvamento arqueológico

Número de Páginas: 176

De fragmentos y tiempos

Número de Páginas: 128

Iconografía mexicana

Número de Páginas: 314

Antropología e historia

Número de Páginas: 100

Oxtankah: una ciudad prehispánica en las tierras bajas del área maya

Autor: Hortensia De Vega Nova , Ana Mendoza Ochoa

Número de Páginas: 295

La ciudad de Oxtankah desempeñó un papel crucial sociopolítico establecido por las comunidades en la porción sur del actual estado de Quintana Roo, con lo cual se concluye que sus habitantes lograron un alto grado de sustentabilidad ecológica que les permitió diversificar la economía local, basada en la explotación de recursos marinos, costeros y lacustres, al igual que en la agricultura, recolección, cacería, apicultura y producción de sal, entre otros.

La cerámica de Tula, Hidalgo

Autor: Robert H. Cobean

Número de Páginas: 550