SUPPLEMENT TO THE "HANDBOOK OF MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS" by Victoria Reifler Bricker (Editor), John D. Monaghan (Editor), Barbara W. Edmonson ( 9780292708815 )

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Title:

SUPPLEMENT TO THE "HANDBOOK OF MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS"
ETHNOLOGY

Volume:

Supplement 6

By:

Victoria Reifler Bricker (Editor), John D. Monaghan (Editor), Barbara W. Edmonson

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£39.00
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ISBN 10:

0292708815

ISBN 13:

9780292708815

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Pub. date:

11 June, 1992

Pages:

350

Description:

Reviews the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America, and discusses the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades. This volume offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region.

Synopsis:

In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, "Handbook of Middle American Indians". These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest. Supplements devoted to Archaeology, Linguistics, Literatures, Ethnohistory, and Epigraphy have appeared to date. In 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. They examine how research agendas have developed in relationship to broader interests in the field and the ways in which the anthropology of the region has responded to the sociopolitical and economic policies of Mexico and Guatemala. Most importantly, they focus on the changing conditions of life of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. This volume thus offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years. Victoria R.Bricker is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. John D. Monaghan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

Illustrations:

35 b&w photographs, 28 maps, 2 charts, 14 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

University of Texas Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

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