Description
Book SynopsisIn this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades.
Table of Contents
- General Editor's Preface (Victoria Reifler Bricker)
- 1. A Retrospective Look at the Ethnology Volumes of the Handbook of Middle American Indians (John D. Monaghan)
- I. Topical Syntheses
- 2. Mesoamerican Social Organization and Community after 1960 (Eileen M. Mulhare)
- 3. Theology and History in the Study of Mesoamerican Religions (John D. Monaghan)
- 4. Alternative Political Futures of Indigenous People in Mesoamerica (Howard Campbell)
- II. Regional Syntheses
- 5. Otomían and Purépechan Cultures of Central Mexico (James W. Dow)
- 6. Contemporary Cultures of the Gulf Coast (Alan R. Sandstrom)
- 7. Indigenous Peoples in Central and Western Mexico (Catharine Good)
- 8. Thirty Years of Oaxacan Ethnography (John D. Monaghan and Jeffrey H. Cohen)
- 9. The Maya of Chiapas since 1965 (Ulrich Köhler)
- 10. The Yucatec Maya (Paul Sullivan)
- 11. Maya and Anthropologists in the Highlands of Guatemala since the 1960's (John M. Watanabe)
- Bibliography
- Index
