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Ancient Life in Mexico and Central America
by Edgar L. Hewett. 344 pgs.

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Part One: On the Writing of Ancient American History

Part One: On the Writing of Ancient American History

Part Two: The Northern Threshold of Anahuac

Part Two: The Northern Threshold Of Anahuac

Part Three: DÉbris of an Ancient World: Mexico

Part Three: Débris of an Ancient World: Mexico

Part Four: DÉbris of an Ancient World: Central America

Part Four: Débris of an Ancient World: Central America

Part Five: Intellectual, Esthetic, and Spiritual Attainments

Part Five: Intellectual, Esthetic, and Spiritual Attainments

Part Six: The Cataclysm That Broke Over America

Part Six: The Cataclysm That Broke Over America

Afterword

Index

Index
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Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America
by William L. Sherman. 496 pgs.

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Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth -Century Central America

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Preface

Introduction

Part I

1: Prehispanic Slavery

2: Slavery and the Spanish Conquest

3: Slaves of Rescate

4: The Slave Trade

5: The Branding of Slaves

6: Prices and Numbers of Slaves

Part II

7: Personal Service: Forced Tributary Labor, 1524-49

8: The Cerrato Reforms

9: Reaction to the Reforms

Part III

10: Repartimiento Labor

11: Varieties of Forced Labor, 1550-1600

12: Agricultural Labor

Part IV

13: The Native Aristocracy Under Spanish Rule

14: Indian Women and the Spaniards

Postscript

Appendix A: Indian Populations of Central American Provinces

Appendix B: Spanish Vecinos in Central America During the First Century of Colonization

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered the Land, Pioneered in It, and Created Great Classical Civilizations, How They Were Plunged into a Dark Age by Invasion and Conquest, and How They Are Reviving
by Francis Jennings. 457 pgs.

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The Founders of America: From the Earliest Migrations to the Present

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List of Maps

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part One: Classical Indian America

Chapter 1: Conquest of the Wilderness

Chapter 2: The Dynamo

Chapter 3: Chaco Canyon

Chapter 4: Cahokia

Chapter 5: Huronia

Chapter 6: The Dalles

Chapter 7: How Many Indians and Why

Chapter 8: The "Documents" of Pre-Writing History

Part Two: Oncoming Crisis

Chapter 9: Hispaniola

Chapter 10: Truth and Sahagún

Chapter 11: The Rise of Tenochtitlán

Chapter 12: The Aztec Empire

Chapter 13: Cultures in Conflict

Part Three: The Dark Ages

Chapter 14: Trauma

Chapter 15: Transformation

Chapter 16: Transformation II. Resource Accounting

Part Four: New Frontiers

Chapter 17: The Sixteenth Century

Chapter 18: Fallacies of "Frontier History"

Chapter 19: Plantation and Accommodation

Chapter 20: French and English Missions

Chapter 21: Partners and Rivals

Chapter 22: Some Effects of Trade

Chapter 23: Wars in the East

Chapter 24: The Covenant Chain

Chapter 25: Frontiers in the Middle

Part Five: The Century of Decision

Chapter 26: From All Directions

Chapter 27: The Southwest

Chapter 28: California Missions

Chapter 29: The Northwest Coast

Chapter 30: The Vast Middle Northern Sector

Chapter 31: War against the Foxes

Chapter 32: End of the Natchez

Chapter 33: The Northeast

Chapter 34: Savage Empires

Chapter 35: The Forty Years War

Part Six: The End of Independence

Chapter 36: Manifest Destiny

Chapter 37: Over the Mountains

Chapter 38: And Tippecanoe Too

Chapter 39: Paths of Glory / Trails of Tears

Chapter 40: Progress and Erosion

Chapter 41: Indians Who Have Vanished

Chapter 42: The Golden West

Chapter 43: The Way to Wounded Knee

Chapter 44: Cultures within a Culture

Part Seven: A Hazard of New Fortunes

Chapter 45: Renewal

Chapter 46: Immigrants in Their Own Country

Chapter 47: In Perspective

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Nation-States and Indians in Latin America (Chap. 7 "Strategies of Ethnic Survival in Central America")
by Joel Sherzer, Greg Urban. 336 pgs.

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Introduction: Indians, Nation-States, and Culture

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1. an Ideological Triangle: the Struggle Over San Blas Kuna Culture, 1915-1925

Introduction: Ideology and Indian-State Relations

Notes

References

2. Symbolic Counterhegemony Among the Ecuadorian Shuar

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3. in Nēca Gobierno De Puebla: Mexicano Penetrations of the Mexican State

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4. to Be Indian, to Be Bolivian: "Ethnic" and "National" Discourses of Identity

Introduction

Conclusion: Cultures in Colonial Discourses

Notes

Notes

5. Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupés

5. Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupés

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6. Ethnic Discourse and the Challenge to Anthropology: the Nicaraguan Case

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7. Strategies of Ethnic Survival in Central America

Conclusions: a Map of Ethnic Strategies in Central America

References

References

8. Becoming Indian in Lowland South America

Notes

Notes

9. on Indigenism and Nationality in Brazil

References

Introduction

10. the State and Andean Musical Production in Peru

Conclusions

References

References

11. Images of the Indian in Guatemala: the Role of Indigenous Dress in Indian and Ladino Constructions

Notes

Notes

Conclusion

References

Notes

Contributors

Index
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Central America: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Crises (Chap. 4 "Indian Labor and the Guatemalan Crisis: Evidence from History and Anthropology")
by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. 312 pgs.

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"A collection of essays that analyzes the historical antecedents of the current political crises in Central America. The essays provide a balanced interpretation of such themes as international power politics in Central America since the 19th century and the effects of cultural diversity and local interests in preventing the development of enduring political unity and economic integration. Latin Americanists and those interested in international politics at the upper-division undergraduate level and above will value this informative analysis of the volatile region." Choice

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World History

Copyright Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

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INTRODUCTION Central America and Historical Perspective

Chapter 1 "Keeping the Europeans Out": the United States and Central America Since 1823

Summary

Chapter 2 Metropole Rivalry in Central America, 1820s-1929: an Overview

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Chapter 3 the United States and Rural Insurgency in Guatemala, 1960-1970: an Inter-American "Success Story"?

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Chapter 4 Indian Labor and the Guatemalan Crisis: Evidence from History and Anthropology

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Chapters Catholic Leaders and Spiritual Socialism During the Arévalo Administration in Guatemala, 1945-1951

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Chapter 6 Facing the Challenge: the Catholic Church and Social Change in Honduras

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Chapter 7 the Miskito and the "Spanish": a Historical Perspective on the Ethnogenes and Persistence of a People

Chapter 8 "¡patria Libre O Muerte!" Death Imagery and the Poetry of Revolt in Nicaragua, 1900-1985

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Chapter 9 Sandinista Cultural Policy: Notes Toward an Analysis in Historical Context

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Chapter 10 Belize and Revolutionary Grenada: a Partnership in the Caribbean, 1979-1983

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Chapter 11: Mexico and Central America: The Continuity of Policy

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Chapter 12: The Nonmilitary Neutrality of Costa Rica

NOTES

References and Abbreviations Cited in Notes

About the Contributors

Index
6.

Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution
by Cyrus Thomas. 108 pgs.

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Prefatory Note

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Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America

Mexico

Ethnic Dividing Line Between North America And South America

Bibliography

Index of Linguistic Families, Tribes, and Settlements
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Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
by Herbert J. Spinden. 270 pgs.

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Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America

Preface

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Maps and Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter I: The Archaic Horizon

Chapter II: The Mayan Civilization

Chapter III: The Middle Civilizations

Chapter IV: The Aztecs

Bibliography

Index
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Mesoamerica: The Evolution of a Civilization
by William T. Sanders, Barbara J. Price. 266 pgs.

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Preface

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Illustrations

Part One: Civilization as an Ecological System

I the Evolution of Social Systems

Ii Archaeology and Social Systems

Iii the Diffusion- Evolution Controversy

Iv the Dynamic Aspects of the Ecosystem

Part Two: The Evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization

V Basic Geography

Vi Bands and Tribes in Mesoamerica

Vii the Chiefdom Stage in Mesoamerica

Viii Civilizations in Mesoamerica

Part Three: Summary and Conclusions

Ix Cultural Ecology and Cultural Evolution

X the Origins of Civilization

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Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations
by Murdo J. MacLeod, Robert Wasserstrom. 292 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Indians in Colonial Yucatan: Three Perspectives

Lowland Maya Political Economy: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives in Light of Intensive Agriculture

The Last Maya Frontiers of Colonial Yucatan

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Chiapas, 1528-1790

Whose Caste War? Indians, Ladinos, and the Chiapas "Caste War" of 1869

Some Aspects of Change in Guatemalan Society, 1470-1620

Ethnic Relations and Indian Society in the Province of Guatemala, Ca. 1620-Ca. 1800

Spanish-Indian Relations in Highland Guatemala, 1800-1944

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
by Jeffrey L. Gould. 314 pgs.

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About the Series

Introduction

1: "¡vana Ilusión!": the Highlands Indians And the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925

Notes

Notes

3: "The Rebel Race": the Struggles of The Indigenous Community of Sutiaba, 1900-1960

4: Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje, 1920-1940

Conclusion: Mestizaje After Sandino

5: "En Pleno Siglo Xx": Indigenous Resistance, Indigenismo, and Citizenship, 1930-1940

6: Crimes in the Countryside: Burning Bushes, Stolen Saints, and Murder, 1940-1954

7: Memories of Mestizaje, Memories of Accumulation: The Indigenous Dimension in the Peasant Movements, 1954-1965

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index
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An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
by Sylvantus Griswold Morley. 284 pgs.

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Letter of Transmittal

Preface

Contents

List of Tables

Illustrations

Bibliography

Chapter I: The Maya

Chapter II: The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

Chapter III: How the Maya Reckoned Time

Chapter IV: Maya Arithmetic

Chapter V: The Inscriptions

Chapter VI: The Codices

Index
12.

Too Small a Place: The Removal of the Willamette Valley Indians, 1850-1856, in American Indian Quarterly
by Ronald Boyd Spores. 22 pgs.

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The Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Indian Identity and Cultural Appropriation, in American Indian Quarterly
by Kathryn W. Shanley. 28 pgs.

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