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Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islam in Mexico /
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"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"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004510319
9789004510302
Navigation et installations lacustres dans les hautes terres du Mexique : les cas mexica et tarasque /
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This research focuses on the practice of lake navigation and specific facilities that are associated with it in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. Due to the need for a wholistic approach, this research is situated in a multidisciplinary framework that combines archaeology, ethnology and ethnohistory.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919108 (ebook) :
The hydraulic system of Uxul : origins, functions, and social setting /
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This research seeks to close an essential research gap - the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xxii, 518 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919306 (ebook) :
El renacer de los Reyes : imagen, contexto y significado del friso de Balamkú, Campeche, México /
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The frieze of Structure 1-A Sub of Balamk,͠ Campeche, is one of the most complex Maya artistic expressions of the Classic period (250-900 AD). This study places the frieze within its historical framework so the monument may be better understood and the significance of its message revealed.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273518 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
El Palacio : historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico /
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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.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697971 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.