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Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems draws together studies by some of the world's leading experts presented at a conference held in December 2020, 'The Origins and Developments of Central Mexican Calendars and Writing Systems'. Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. From the earliest attestations of this intellectual feat in the Late Preclassic period (c. 900 bc-ad 150), writing spread throughout Mesoamerica, developing and diversifying into a series of distinct and independent scripts. With the exception of the celebrated phonetic decipherments of Maya and Aztec writing, which are now well-documented and can be fully read, most Mesoamerican writing systems remain little studied and undeciphered. This is particularly true of the writing systems of Western Mesoamerica, the topic of this volume. Bringing together new research on Western Mesoamerican writing systems, some contributions focus on specific features of a given writing system, whereas others offer state-of-the-art syntheses of whole writing systems. Two contributions focus on the calendar in particular, and associated notations, as integral parts of writing systems. Chapters are included on the writing system of Teotihuacan, the Nuine writing of the Mixteca Baja and adjoining areas, the writing system of the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica, spanning from the Early Classic to the Late Postclassic (from the 2nd to the sixteenth centuries ad). Aztec writing even continued in use for several decades after the Spanish invasion of Mexico (ad 1519-1521), which saw the introduction of the Latin alphabet and the gradual obsolescence of Mesoamerican logophonetic writing systems.
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Acompañada de una nueva introducción, esta traducción al español del clásico libro, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua, ofrece una descripción detallada de los cambios demográficos y culturales que la conquista española y el dominio colonial trajeron a las sociedades indígenas de Nicaragua. Muestra cómo la naturaleza de las propias sociedades indígenas y la forma en que los españoles buscaron controlarlas y explotarlas se reflejaron en diferentes niveles de disminución y supervivencia de la población. Se basa en una extensa investigación de archivos en América Central y España y en evidencia arqueológica, etnográfica y lingüística. Contribuye significativamente a comprender cómo algunas sociedades indígenas del Nuevo Mundo pudieron sobrevivir en mayor medida que otras.
Indians of Central America. --- Indians of Central America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology
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The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history.
Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec Indians --- Historiography. --- Genealogy. --- Social life and customs. --- Mixteca Indians --- Mixteco Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Anthropology --- Deer --- Lord --- Monte Albán --- Toltec
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Monumental investigación sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva España, que hace especial énfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolución general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con información sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva España.
Indians of Mexico --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Government relations. --- Employment --- History. --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- History of the Americas
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Monumental investigación sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva España, que hace especial énfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolución general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con información sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva España.
Indians of Mexico --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Government relations. --- Employment --- History. --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- History of the Americas
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Monumental investigación sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva España, que hace especial énfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolución general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con información sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva España.
Indians of Mexico --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Government relations. --- Employment --- History. --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- History of the Americas
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Monumental investigación sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva España, que hace especial énfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolución general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con información sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva España.
Indians of Mexico --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Government relations. --- Employment --- History. --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- History of the Americas
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Monumental investigación sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva España, que hace especial énfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolución general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con información sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva España.
Indians of Mexico --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Government relations. --- Employment --- History. --- Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- History of the Americas
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"This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. Though fake, the forty sites Feder highlights are fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them."--Provided by publisher.
Indians of North America --- Indians of North America --- Curiosities and wonders --- Forgery of antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Antiquities --- Reproduction. --- United States --- United States --- America --- Antiquities --- Antiquities --- Reproduction. --- Discovery and exploration --- Pre-Columbian --- Miscellanea
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