HUASTEC

wäsˈtĕk, indigenous people of the Pánuco River basin, E Mexico. They speak a Mayan language but are isolated from the rest of the Mayan stock, from whom they may have been separated prior to the arrival of the Spanish. Their culture did not develop along with that of the Maya. They remained apart from the later civilizations of the central plateau, such as the Aztec. Huastecan music and dancing have influenced some of the musical folklore of Mexico. The contemporary Huastec population, maintaining aspects of their traditional culture and language, numbers about 80,000 in the areas of Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.

See R. Wauchope, Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. III: Ethnology (ed. by E. Z. Vogt, 1964).

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books on: Huastec  - 81 results

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The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples
Book by George Kubler; Penguin Books, 1962
Subjects: Indian Architecture, Indian Art, Indians--Antiquities, Latin America--Antiquities
...Tamuin, wall painting representing Huastec deities, eleventh century The style of...a number of carved shell ornaments of Huastec origin Plate 44 . The backgrounds are...dated to the centunes around 1000. In the Huastec shell ornaments, the composition is fully...
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion & Survival
Book by Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnohistory--Mexico--Nayarit, Huichol Indians--History, Huichol Indians--Religion, Huichol Philosophy, Nayarit (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Peyotism--Mexico--Nayarit, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Nayarit, Shamanism--Mexico--Nayarit
...circular ceremonial buildings are a hallmark of Huastec architecture. San Luis Potosi itself is full of Huastec sites with round ceremonial complexes and...Cabrera Ipina 1991 . Remains of a round Huastec temple were identified not long ago even...
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Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
Book by Thomas W. Killion; University of Alabama Press, 1992
Subjects: Agriculture, Prehistoric--America--Congresses, America--Antiquities--Congresses, Indians--Agriculture--Congresses, Indians--Antiquities--Congresses, Land Settlement Patterns, Prehistoric--America--Congresses
...element of tropical living. Alcorn study of Huastec Maya ethnobotany 1984 in San Luis Potosi...surrounding Huasteca houses. Her analysis of Huastec spatial perceptions suggests a strong...activity. Alcorn develops a model of the Huastec garden residence and its place in local...
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Economic Development and Environmental Protection in Latin America
Book by Joseph S. Tulchin; Lynne Rienner, 1991
Subjects: Environmental Policy--Economic Aspects--Latin America, Environmental Protection--Economic Aspects--Latin America
...forest 350,000 hectares is managed by Huastec Maya and other small farmers.They produce...species found in the telom are used by the Huastec. 6 Although a telom alone cannot support a family, its functions within the larger Huastec economy are indispensible.The telom...
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Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture
Book by Darrell A. Posey, Kristina Plenderleith; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Cayapo Indians--Agriculture, Cayapo Indians--Ethnobiology, Cayapo Indians--Ethnobotany, Gorotire (Brazil)--Environmental Conditions, Gorotire (Brazil)--Social Life And Customs, Indigenous Peoples--Ecology--Brazil--Gorotire
...Society. Alcorn, J.B. (1981a). Huastec noncrop resource management: implications...botanical resource perception among the Huastec: suggestions for future ethnobotanical...1: 221-30. Alcorn, J. (1983). Huastec Ethnobotany . Austin, University of Texas...
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The Culture of Marginality: The Teenek Portrayal of Social Difference (1)
Journal article by Anath Ariel De Vidas; Ethnology, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Ethnology--Research, Mexican native peoples--Social aspects
...facing national society. (Mexico, Teenek Huastec Indians, ethnicity, world view) The...the lowest level. Descendants of the Huastec, they have been subjugated and acculturated...traits and characteristics of ancient Huastec society have gradually been obscured over...
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Residence Rules and Ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica
Journal article by David Luke Robichaux; Ethnology, Vol. 36, 1997
Subjects: Households--Mexico, Inheritance and succession--Social aspects, Tlaxcala, Mexico--Social aspects
...groups; e.g., the Aguatec, Otomi, Huastec, Huave, Chinantec, Mazahua, Mazatec...reports male ultimogeniture among the Huastec of northern Veracruz, where the youngest...Cambridge. Laughlin, R. M. 1969a. The Huastec. Handbook of Middle American Indians...
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Ethnobiology
Journal article by Daniel Clement; Anthropologica, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Biology, Education, Ethnology
...Folk Classification Bulletin. References/References Cited Alcorn, J.B. 1981 Huastec Non-crop Resource Management, Human Ecology, 9: 395-417. 1984 Huastec Maya Ethnobotany, Austin: University of Texas Press. Anonyme/Anonymous 1895a...
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The Second Conquest: Religious Conversion and the Erosion of the Cultural Ecological Core among the Mopan Maya
Journal article by Michael K. Steinberg; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 20, 2002
Subjects: Ecology--Religious aspects, Ecology--Social aspects, Mayas--History, Mayas--Religious aspects, Mayas--Social aspects, Missionaries--Influence, Religion--Environmental aspects, Religion--Social aspects
...where indigenous cultures again are disrupted due to outside-driven religious influences. REFERENCES Alcorn, J. B. 1984. Huastec Maya Ethnobotany. Austin: University of Texas Press. Balee, W. 1987. Cultural Forests of the Amazon. Garden 11: 12...
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Palms, Pastures, and Swidden Fields: The Grounded Political Ecology of "Agro-Extractive/shifting-Cultivator Peasants" in Maranhao, Brazil
Journal article by Roberto Porro; Human Ecology, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Environmental degradation--Economic aspects, Environmental degradation--United States, Shifting cultivation--Management, University of Florida--Services
...pressures on rangelands transform a predominantly grassy ecosystem into a wooded state. REFERENCES Alcorn, J. B. (1984). Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany, University of Texas Press, Austin. de Almeida, A. W. B. (1981). Transformacoes Economicas e Sociais...
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magazine articles on: Huastec  - 6 results

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Shred but Not Dead
Magazine article by Ann Misch; World Watch, Vol. 6, July 1993
Subjects: Biotic communities--Management, Deforestation--Environmental aspects, Forest ecology--Influence
...describes the role of people like the Huastec of northeastern Mexico and the Bora of...farming sites. Alcorn estimates that the Huastec set aside at least 25 percent of their...which, like coffee, are planted by the Huastec. Others grow up naturally in the original...
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Flopsy, Mopsy, and Tipsy
Magazine article by Patricia Rieff Anawalt; Natural History, Vol. 106, April 1997
Subjects: Alcohol use, Ancient civilizations, Rabbits, Symbolism
...dedicated to strong drink. According to legend, an early Huastec leader disgraced himself at the great celebration honoring...drunkenness, and all associated matters is their adoption of a Huastec fertility goddess into their own elastic pantheon. This deity...
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A Scent of Heaven and Earth: From Pre-Columbian Times to Today, Copal Has Been Burned for a Wide Variety of Religious and Secular Purposes
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, May-June 2003
Subjects: Odors--Natural history, Odors--Social aspects, Odors--Usage
...maize seed before planting, just as the Qeqchi fumigate it over their fallow milpa to ensure a rapid return to fertility. Huastec priests divine the future by reading the pattern that maize seeds fall into when tossed like dice after being thoroughly censed...
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Participatory Mapping Empowers Patrimony: A Team of Geographers and Archaeologists Are Collaborating with Indigenous Communities in Tiltepec, Mexico to Put Their Lands and Languages on the Map
Magazine article by Scott Brady; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 61, March 2009
Subjects: Archaeologists--Practice, Archaeologists--Social aspects, Cities and towns--Natural history, Geographers--Practice, Geographers--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects, Map drawing--Management, Mexico--Natural history
...that resulted from their work with the Huasteca in San Luis Potosi, and emphasized the power of maps by describing how the Huastec communities had used maps. After the presentation, community members discussed the proposal in the Zapotec language while...
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A Hidden Gem
Magazine article by Norman Kolpas; Southwest Art, Vol. 30, February 2001
Subjects: Art, Art galleries & museums, Collections, Old Jail Art Center-Albany TX
...and important collection of earthenware vessels, votive figurines, and tomb pottery from the cultures of Chimu, Colima, Huastec, Jalisco, Maya, Mixtec, Nayarit, and Teotihuacan. Some pieces date as far back as 1000 B.C. The Marshall R Young Courtyard...
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encyclopedia articles on: Huastec  - 5 results

 
 
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Huastec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUASTEC was tek, indigenous people of the Panuco River basin, E Mexico. They...have influenced some of the musical folklore of Mexico. The contemporary Huastec population, maintaining aspects of their traditional culture and language...
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Natives, Middle American
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Native American. Today the descendants of the above-mentioned Native American groups, as well as such peoples as the Huastec , the Tarascan , the Yaqui , and the Tarahumara , constitute a powerful cultural and economic element of Mexican life. See...
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Maya , Indigenous People of Mexico and Central America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Belize; parts of El Salvador and extreme western Honduras. Speaking a group of closely related languages (with an outlier, Huastec, spoken in the Panuco basin of Mexico), the population of Maya today is over 4 million. Maya Prehistory Archaeologists...
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Aztec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and early 16th cent. they became a powerful political and cultural group. To the north they established hegemony over the Huastec , to the south over the Mixtec and Zapotec and even ventured as far as Guatemala. Their subjugation of the people of Tlaxcala...
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Tampico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...including cattle, hides, sugar, and additional agricultural products. In pre-Columbian times, Tampico was the site of the Huastec kingdom, which later became a tributary of the Aztec Empire. Spanish settlement dates back to the founding of a Franciscan...


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