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Published 1995
The frontier mission and social transformation in western Honduras : the Order of Our Lady of Mercy, 1525-1773 /

: The Frontier Mission and Social Transformation in Western Honduras deals with the interaction between Mercedarian missionaries and the indigenous Lenca Indian population of western Honduras during the early sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. Using an anthropological perspective, it relies heavily on previously neglected ecclesiastical archival material in conjunction with preliminary archaeological evidence as an integral source of data. A fine-grained description of the local processes of missionization in a frontier region examines the organization, operation and goals of the Mercedarian mission province located in the colonial Audiencia of Guatemala. Summary data concerning aspects of Lenca society and physical environment relevant to investigation of mission activities are provided. The importance of this study lies in its ability to explain mission development in frontier settings as well as to trace transformations within a mission order over almost a 250-year period.
: 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) : maps. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-189) and index. : 9789004319950 : 0924-9389 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2019
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality /

: In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. 'This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.' - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004392014 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1997
Crosscurrents in indigenous spirituality : interface of Maya, Catholic, and Protestant worldviews /

: The resurgence of indigenous cultures and the reappearance of their ancient spiritualities, during the 1990s, is of great interest to social scientists. Several such cultures are featured in this book. The indigenous populations of struggling multi-ethnic \'democracies\' in Latin America are demanding to be integrated into the national mainstream, together with their holistic values of family, economics and ecology. Institutional Christianity is being challenged by indigenous theologies that are critical of both traditional Christianity and liberation theology. While some see here a danger of syncretism, these developments can be experienced as a breath of fresh air. \'Much has been said about the Mayas, but they have not been allowed to speak for themselves\' (anthropologist Rafael Girardi, 1962). This book is an attempt to allow religious spokespersons from a very ancient and creative civilization to share their faith, which has remained hidden for five centuries.
: 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations, map. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index. : 9789004319981 : 0924-9389 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
Stone trees transplanted? : Central Mexican stelae of the epiclassic and early postclassic and the question of Maya 'influence' /

: Stelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been presented in the archaeological and art historical literature of the last four decades, when they have been addressed at all, as evidence of classic Maya 'influence' on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784910112 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2014
The archaeology of Yucatán : new directions and data /

: This volume was conceived to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign scholars to publish new data and interpretations on the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands, specifically the State of Yucatán.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). : Specialized. : 9781784910099 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2015
Archaeological paleography : a proposal for tracing the role of interaction in Mayan script innovation via material remains /

: This volume explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle-Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC-AD 450) Mesoamerica.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784912406 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2016
Un estudio de tecnología lítica desde la antropología de las técnicas : el caso del Alero Deodoro Roca ca. 3000 AP, Ongamira, Ischilín, Córdoba /

: As part of a series of research projects on the archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations. This is in order to understand the social aspects that allow us to recognize and describe habitus or ways of doing things. In this book we studied lithic assemblages, in the manner described above from stratigraphic levels of the Alero Deodoro Roca (Deodoro Roca Rockshelter) comprising chronologies between ca. 3000 years BP to ca. 3600 years BP.
: Previously issued in print: 2016. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784913502 (ebook) :

Published 2020
El Palacio : historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico /

: 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.
: 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.

Published 2022
Contextualización del reconocimiento arqueológico de Eduard Seler en la Región de Chaculá, Departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala /

: This study re-examines and contextualises Eduard Seler's investigations in the Chaculá-Region, Guatemala. A new study of the Ethnological Museum Berlin's materials from the region, including previously undocumented ceramics, reveals a chronology suggesting that the major settlements were occupied from the Late Classic to the Early Postclassic.
: Also issued in print: 2022.
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. : 1 online resource (x, 394 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781803272863 (PDF ebook) : : Open access.

Published 2022
Arqueología de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Sudamérica : el asentamiento Nazi de Teyú Cuaré /

: This study reports on a remarkable discovery and a pioneering example of historical archaeology in Latin America: an unknown settlement was found nestled between rocky cliffs in the Argentinian jungle. Dated to between 1943-6, finds are characterised by exotic European luxuries, German coins and coins from the occupied countries of Western Europe.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations (colour) : Specialized. : 9781803272184 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2022
Aquatic adaptations in Mesoamerica : subsistence activities in ethnoarchaeological perspective /

: This text explores the subsistence strategies that ancient Mesoamericans implemented to survive and thrive in their environments. It discusses the natural settings, production sites, techniques, artifacts, cultural landscapes, traditional knowledge, and other features linked to human subsistence in aquatic environments.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781789699128 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2022
El renacer de los Reyes : imagen, contexto y significado del friso de Balamkú, Campeche, México /

: 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.
: 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.

Published 2018
Tarascan copper metallurgy : a multiapproach perspective /

: This is a study which provides valuable insights into the nature of metal production and the development of technology and political economy in ancient Mesoamerica, offering a contribution to general anthropological theories of the emergence of social complexity.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784916268 (ebook) :

Published 2020
Peintures et gravures rupestres des Amériques : Empreintes culturelles et territoriales : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).

: How does the study of rock art make it possible to culturally characterise its authors? What does it tell us about the function of sites? How and under what circumstances does it make it possible to delimit a cultural territory? The six articles in this volume provide case studies from Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Chile.
: "Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2020. : 1 online resource (ii, 98 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789696349 (PDF ebook) : : Open access.

Published 2014
Palaces and courtly culture in ancient Mesoamerica /

: Mesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was the ruler, the court and the high elite. This social segment was responsible for the creation and consumption of the hallmarks of civilizations, including monumental architecture, great monolithic monuments and a wide array of highly decorated, exotic and exceptional material culture. As such royal courts defined the very tastes and styles that characterise entire civilizations. This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies on the subject rulership, palatial compounds and courtly culture by staff and students of the American Indian Languages and Culture studies programme at Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : 9781784910518 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2015
Metallurgy in ancient Ecuador : a study of the collection of archaeological metallurgy of the Ministry of Culture, Ecuador /

: Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional styles soon evolved giving rise to high levels of technical craftsmanship and to shaping particular iconographic and decorative patterns. Copper, gold, silver and platinum were mined, processed and converted into thousands of ornaments, offerings, tools and weapons extensively used both by elites and by the common people. This work discusses this topic.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784911614 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2016
Entre reyes y campesinos : investigaciones arqueológicas en la antigua capital Maya de Tamarindito /

: The Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological investigations provide a comprehensive perspective on social dynamics and change in an ancient Maya capital.
: Previously issued in print: 2016. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784913861 (ebook) :

Published 2016
Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico /

: This volume presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realised within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III, studying of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region.
: Previously issued in print: 2016. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784913885 (ebook) :

Published 2019
Essai bibliographique sur l'archéologie francophone de la mésoamérique = Bibliographical essay upon the French-speaking contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology = Ensayo bibliográ...

: The present bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to serve several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and Brussels. Since the fifties, the steady growth of Mexican and Central American national researches and the ever-growing weight of United States investigators slowly occulted the French contributions. Conversely, the establishment of research institutions in Belgium, Switzerland, France and Canada facilitated the multiplication of investigation projects in the whole continent, with their correlative publications.
: Previously issued in print: 2019. : 1 online resource (iv, 242 pages). : Specialized. : 9781789691009 (ebook) :

Published 2019
Imágenes y paisajes : el arte rupestre del Noreste de Catamarca, Argentina /

: Northeast of Catamarca, Argentina, there is a set of shelters and caves located in the rainforest with rock art with virtually no background. This book presents a study and systematic analysis of the plastic-thematic-compositional repertoire of the rock art sites of 'Los Algarrobales' and their spatial and temporal distribution.
: "Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage. : 1 online resource (ii, 280 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789693928 (ebook) :