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Author: Evon Zartman Vogt
Publisher: Case Studies in Cultural Anthr
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew edition of a comprehensive survey of the Zincanteco belief system. The book begins with explanations of field work methods followed by detailed descriptions of the cycles encompassing hamlet life, social and domestic relations, and rituals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: E. Vogt
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Published: 1990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith Rich Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0684857073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.
Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1438108273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of Mexico, from pre-Columbian times through the early 2000s.
Author: Jon C. Lohse
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0292778147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch 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.
Author: Robert V. Kemper
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780759101944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of methods used in long-term anthropological field projects, some extending over half a century. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Patrisia Gonzales
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0816529566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant ith in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman--the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath--exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world. Ê
Author: Miléna Santoro
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1496208692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s major regions of indigenous peoples. Although the terms indio, indigène, and indian only exist (in Spanish, French, and English, respectively) because of European conquest and colonization, indigenous peoples have appropriated or changed this terminology in ways that reflect their shifting self-identifications and aspirations. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, this process constantly transformed the relation of Native peoples in the Americas to other peoples and the state. This volume’s presentation of various factors—geographical, temporal, and cross-cultural—provide illuminating contributions to the burgeoning field of hemispheric indigenous studies. Hemispheric Indigeneities explores indigenous agency and shows that what it means to be indigenous was and is mutable. It also demonstrates that self-identification evolves in response to the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state. The contributors analyze the conceptions of what indigeneity meant, means today, or could come to mean tomorrow.
Author: Payson D. Sheets
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013-11-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0292749619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, Cerén has been called the "Pompeii of the New World." This book presents complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues. As the authors present and analyze Cerén's houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.
