Ethnology and Linguistics of Baja California
Author: Miguel del Barco
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
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Tipai Ethnographic Notes
Author: William D. Hohenthal
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780879191443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate bandw map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
Author: Søren Wichmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-12-16
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 3110421763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.
Californio Portraits
Author: Harry W. Crosby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0806152591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.
Lands of Promise and Despair
Author: Rose Marie Beebe
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0806153563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.
Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School
Author: Pedro Aullón de Haro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9004430849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to the Spanish Universalist School presents the most significant authors, works, and concepts of a distinctive humanistic and scientific intellectual community, one mostly comprised of ex-Jesuits exiled to Italy at the end of the eighteenth century. The study of this corner of the Hispanic Enlightenment, marked especially by the work of Juan Andrés, Lorenzo Hervás, and Antonio Eximeno, offers contributions to the history of European sciences and letters, to the history of ideas, and to the concepts of universality and globalization.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8
Author: Robert Wauchope
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015-01-16
Total Pages: 992
ISBN-13: 1477306714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnology comprises the seventh and eighth volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The editor of the Ethnology volumes is Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. These two books contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico. Among the topics described for each group of Indians are the history of ethnological investigations, cultural and linguistic distributions, major postcontact events, population, subsistence systems and food patterns, settlement patterns, technology, economy, social organization, religion and world view, aesthetic and recreational patterns, life cycle and personality development, and annual cycle of life. The volumes are illustrated with photographs and drawings of contemporary and early historical scenes of native Indian life in Mexico and Central America. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico
Author: Charles W. Polzer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780824020965
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Author: Thurber Dennis Proffitt
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing a chapter on the geography of the region, Proffitt offers a sociocultural history of Tijuana from prehistoric times to the present. Includes a detailed appendix of sources for further study of Tijuana and an extensive bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
California Indian Languages
Author: Victor Golla
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0520266676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Victor Golla has been the leading scholar of California Indian languages for most of his professional life, and this book shows why. His ability to synthesize centuries of fieldwork and writings while bringing forward new ideas and fresh ways of looking at California’s famous linguistic diversity will make this the primary text for anyone interested in California languages."--Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and author of How to Keep Your Language Alive “This book is a wonderful contribution that only Golla could have written. It is a perfect confluence of author and subject matter.”--Ives Goddard, Senior Linguist, Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution "Golla is a gifted polymath and California Indian Languages is certainly his landmark achievement, required reading for any linguist, archaeologist, ethnographer, or historian interested in aboriginal California."--Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Davis and author of Hunter-Gatherer Foraging "The preeminent figure in his field, Victor Golla has written a masterpiece filled with treasures for every audience: Indian communities working toward cultural and linguistic revival; general readers interested in the many cultures of Native California; and scholars in the fields of language, archaeology, and prehistory. The information here is so detailed that it supersedes all previous reference works."--Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley and Director, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages “This is a truly magnificent work, at once authoritative, comprehensive, accessible to a wide readership, and fascinating. Masterfully integrating linguistic, archaeological, historical, and cultural information, the author describes not just the languages, but also the major figures in the story: speakers, explorers, missionaries, and scholars. It is beautifully written, a great pleasure to read, and difficult to put down."--Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
