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Defender - The Life Of Daniel H. Wells

by Quentin Thomas Wells

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 Defender is the first and only scholarly biography of Daniel H. Wells, an important yet historically neglected leader among the nineteenth-century Mormons.
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Came Men On Horses - The Conquistador Expeditions Of Francisco Vasquez De Coronado And Don Juan De Onate

by Stan Hoig

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 Guided by myths of golden cities and worldly rewards, policy makers, conquistador leaders, and expeditionary aspirants alike came to the new world in the sixteenth century and left it a changed land. Came Men on Horses follows two conquistadors--Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Onate--on their journey across the southwest.
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Stone Houses And Earth Lords - Maya Religion In The Cave Context

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 Stone Houses and Earth Lords is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the use of caves in the Maya Lowlands, covering primarily Classic Period archaeology from A.D. 100 through the Spaniards' arrival. Although the caves that riddled the lowlands show no signs of habitation, most contain evidence of human use - evidence that suggests that they functioned as ritual spaces.
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Apotheosis Of Janaab' Pakal - Science, History, And Religion At Classic Maya Palenque

by Gerardo Aldana

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 Represents a major step in looking at the intellectual development of Maya astronomy in a particular historical context and reflects the emerging new understanding of Maya science.
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The Lords Of Lambityeco : Political Evolution In The Valley Of Oaxaca During The Xoo Phase - Political Evolution In The Valley Of Oaxaca During The Xoo Phase

by Lind Michael Lind e Urcid Javier Urcid

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 <div>The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rather than between time periods, <i>The Lords of Lambityeco</i> traces the changing political relationships between Lambityeco and Monte Albán that led to the fall of the Zapotec state. Using detailed analysis of elite and common houses, tombs, and associated artifacts, the authors demonstrate increased political control by Monte Albán over Lambityeco prior to the abandonment of both settlements. Lambityeco is the most thoroughly researched Classic period site in the valley after Monte Albán, but only a small number of summary articles have been published about this important locale. This, in combination with Lambityeco’s status as a secondary center—one that allows for greater understanding of core and periphery dynamics in the Monte Albán state—makes The Lords of Lambityeco a welcome and significant contribution to the literature on ancient Mesoamerica.</div>
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Maya Worldviews At Conquest

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 Examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on the Maya worldview. This book provides a regional investigation of archaeological and epigraphic evidence of Maya ideology, landscape, historical consciousness and ritual practices.
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Maya Daykeeping - Three Calendars From Highland Guatemala

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 <div>In <i>Maya Daykeeping</i>, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K''iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations. Calendars such as these continue to be the basis for prognostication, determining everything from the time for planting and harvest to foreshadowing illness and death. Good, bad, and mixed fates can all be found in these examples of the solar calendar and the 260-day divinatory calendar. <p>The use of such calendars is mentioned in historical and ethnographic works, but very few examples are known to exist. Each of the three calendars transcribed and translated by John M. Weeks, Frauke Sachse, and Christian M. Prager - and housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - is unique in structure and content. Moreover, except for an unpublished study of the 1722 calendar by Rudolf Schuller and Oliver La Farge (1934), these little-known works appear to have escaped the attention of most scholars. Introductory essays contextualize each document in time and space, and a series of appendixes present previously unpublished calendrical notes assembled in the early twentieth century.</p> <p>Providing considerable information on the divinatory use of calendars in colonial highland Maya society previously unavailable without a visit to the University of Pennsylvania''s archives, <i>Maya Daykeeping</i> is an invaluable primary resource for Maya scholars. <b><i>Mesoamerican Worlds Series</i></b></p> </div>
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Social Change And The Evolution Of Ceramic Production And Distribution In A Maya Community

by Dean E. Arnold

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 How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? This ethno-archaeological study attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among potters and changes in the production and distribution of their pottery in a single Mexican community between 1965 and 1997. It is of interest to anthropologists and archaeologists.
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Kowoj - Identity, Migration, And Geopolitics In Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala

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 Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Peten lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala summarizes the results of recent research into this ethno-political group conducted by Prudence Rice, Don Rice, and their colleagues.
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Sun God And The Savior - The Christianization Of The Nahua And Totonac In The Sierra Norte De Puebla, Mexico

by Guy Stresser-Pean

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 The first English translation of Guy Stresser-Pean's tour-de-force presents two decades of fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, where native pre-Hispanic pagan beliefs blended with traditional Catholic evangelization from the sixteenth century and the more recent intrusion of modernism. The Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla are deeply devoted to Christianity, but their devotion is seamlessly combined with pagan customs, resulting in a hybrid belief system that is not wholly indigenous, yet not wholly Christian. The syncretism practiced here has led the Totonac and Nahua people to identify Christ with the Sun God, a belief expressed symbolically in ritual practices such as the Dance of the Voladores. Spanning the four centuries from the earliest systematic campaign against Nahua ritual practices - Zumarraga's idolatry trials of 1536-1540 - to the twentieth century, Stresser-Pean contextualizes Nahua and Totonac ritual practices as a series of responses to Christian evangelization and the social reproduction of traditional ritual practices. The Sun God and the Savior is a monumental work on the ethnographic and historical knowledge of the peoples of the Sierra Norte.
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Skywatching In The Ancient World - New Perspectives In Cultural Astronomy

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 Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions.
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Sweeping The Way - Divine Transformation In The Aztec Festival Of Ochpaniztli

by Catherine Dicesare

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 <div>Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural fact</div>
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After Monte Alban - Transformation And Negotiation In Oaxaca, Mexico

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 <div><i>After Monte Albán</i> reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. <p>Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic Oaxaca''s central place in the study of Mesoamerican antiquity.</p> <p>Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland, Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López, Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.</p> </div>
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Commoner Ritual And Ideology In Ancient Mesoamerica

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 <div>Were most commoners in ancient Mesoamerica poor? In a material sense, yes, probably so. Were they poor in their beliefs and culture? Certainly not, as <i>Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica</i> demonstrates.<br> <br> This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica''s common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from Formative through Postclassic periods. Building from the premise that ritual and ideological expression inhered at all levels of society in Mesoamerica, the contributors demonstrate that ideology did not emanate solely from exalted individuals and that commoner ritual expression was not limited to household contexts. Taking an empirical approach to this under-studied and under-theorized area, contributors use material evidence to discover how commoner status conditioned the expression of ideas and values.<br> <br> Revealing complex social hierarchies that varied across time and region, this volume offers theoretical approaches to commoner ideology, religious practice, and sociopolitical organization and builds a framework for future study of the correlation of ritual and ideological expression with social position for Mesoamericanists and archaeologists worldwide.</div>
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Madrid Codex - New Approaches To Understanding An Ancient Maya Manuscript

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 Offers fresh calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. This book includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries AD.
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Thunder Doesn'T Live Here Anymore - The Culture Of Marginality Among The Teeneks Of Tantoyuca

by Anath Ariel De Vidas

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 Now available in English, "Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore" explores the highly unusual worldview of the Teenek people of Tantoyuca, Veracruz, whose self-deprecating cosmology diverges quite radically from patterns of positive cultural identity among other indigenous groups in Mexico.
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Mexico'S Indigenous Communities - Their Lands And Histories, 1500-2010

by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano

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 A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past.
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In The Realm Of Nachan Kan - Postclassic Maya Archaeology At Laguna De On, Belize

by Marilyn A. Masson

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 i>In the Realm of Nachan Kan</i> opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day.
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Carrying The Word - The Concheros Dance In Mexico City

by Susanna Rostas

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 In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican culture, which is rife with ritual dances.
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The Apotheosis Of Janaab' Pakal - Science, History, And Religion At Classic Maya Palenque

by Gerardo Aldana

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 Represents a major step in looking at the intellectual development of Maya astronomy in a particular historical context and reflects the emerging new understanding of Maya science.
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Mockeries And Metamorphoses Of An Aztec God - Tezcatlipoca, "Lord Of The Smoking Mirror"

by Guilhem Olivier

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 Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon.
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Mesoamerica'S Classic Heritage - From Teotihuacan To The Aztecs

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 or more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city.
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Sweeping The Way - Divine Transformation In The Aztec Festival Of Ochpaniztli

by Catherine Dicesare

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Fanning The Sacred Flame - Mesoamerican Studies In Honor Of H. B. Nicholson

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