Rainfed altepetl : modeling institutional and subsistence agriculture in ancient Tepeaca, Mexico /
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Climate variability and human management strategies on crop stands were major factors that frequently affected agricultural yields among indigenous populations from central Mexico. This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th century) state level-polity settled on the central highlands of Puebla, by applying a model that recognizes the presence of two independent and interconnected forms of food production: subsistence agriculture and institutional agriculture.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910419 (PDF ebook) :
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
Ancient engineering : selective ceramic processing in the Middle Balsas region of Guerrero, Mexico /
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This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region's pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more appropriate for their intended functions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784916510 (ebook) :
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). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919108 (ebook) :
"Los animales enseñaron el camino..." : la fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a través de sus representaciones cerámicas arqueológicas /
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This volume examines the past fauna of the Sierra Gorda region of Mexico, declared a 'Biosphere Reserve' in 1997 by presidential decree, and its representation in archaeological ceramics. These representations are then related to the oral traditions of the inhabitants of the region that have been preserved until now.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (iv, 83 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698602 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Poverty : A Philosophical Approach /
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In Poverty: a philosophical approach , the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (PROGRESA) that was in effect in Mexico, from 1997 to 2002, and shows how theoretical discussion is necessary to clarify some ideas concerning the application of a social policy. Poverty is one of the main problems concerning economics, political philosophy, and ethics. It is an ethical problem because of its relationship with self-esteem. Since poverty is intimately related to social policies, the philosophy of poverty must consider the distribution criteria used to attend to people in situations of extreme poverty. This would involve attention to their needs, preferences, capabilities and "well-being" rights. The book considers social policies applied to poverty, and their occasional abuse of utilitarian instruments. Many are implemented without considering cultural differences, including varying patterns of conduct in diverse communities. Equality also matters. Since poverty and inequality are not the same, the study of the latter allows us to target groups found in the lowest levels of "the playing field".
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789401202848
9789042019751
Stone trees transplanted? : Central Mexican stelae of the epiclassic and early postclassic and the question of Maya 'influence' /
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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.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910112 (PDF ebook) :
Indigenous apostles : Maya Catholic catechists working the word in highland Chiapas /
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Indigenous Apostles tells the story of conversion to Catholicism and birth of new ecclesial community with the arrival of Vatican II mission in Santa Maria Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in Mexico's Maya highlands. In the state of Chiapas, the nation's erratic advance into the global market beginning in the 1970s drove landless young Magdaleneros to search for alternatives to peasant peonage. A few became catechists in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Cognitive entailments of newly-acquired biblical literacy warranted the subsequent critique of local Tzotzil tradition - costumbre - through which they reclaimed their ancestral land. This ethnographic account of their dialectical passage from the way of the ancestors to communion with the world Catholic Church demonstrates local constraints on liberation mission strategy and the power of indigenous agency in their own evangelization. It also points to the salience of place and everyday productive practice for native construction of local theology in the context of the new globalization.
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1 online resource (205 pages) : maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index. :
9789042028739 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Riding with the Revolution : The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925 /
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Riding with the Revolution tells the story of Americans who from 1900 to 1925 became involved with the Mexican Revolution. John Reed actually saddled up and rode with Pancho Villa. Later, American war resisters crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
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1 online resource (548 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004271333
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). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919306 (ebook) :
Tarascan copper metallurgy : a multiapproach perspective /
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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.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784916268 (ebook) :
The archaeology of Yucatán : new directions and data /
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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.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
9781784910099 (PDF ebook) :
From ritual to refuse : faunal exploitation by the elite of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the Late Classic period /
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'From Ritual to Refuse' explores the faunal exploitation by the Maya elite at the site of Chinikihá, Chiapas, during the end of the Late Classic period (AD 700-850) by applying zooarchaeological and statistical analyses to a faunal assemblage located in a basurero or midden behind a palatial structure at the core of the site.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages). : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803270258 (PDF ebook) :
Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico /
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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.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784913885 (ebook) :
Recent investigations in the Puuc region of Yucatán /
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The papers here focus on the history of the Puuc region, Yucatán, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915452 (ebook) :
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.